Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the English editors rejected a Verwoerd suggestion that they police themselves, Verwoerd decided to increase the heat with his new Ministry of Information, presumably as a first step toward government control. But Verwoerd may never have to go that far if he can exert enough pressure on the English dailies-and the business interests that own most of them-to make a chauvinistic moratorium on criticism stick. "Naturally," says Johannesburg Star Editor Horace Flather, "it's preferable for the enemy to commit suicide. Then you don't have to murder...
...courses now offered do indeed do this, and can continue to do so, there will be no problem. But the Departments exert a constant pull toward the morass of specialist orientation, and if they pull hard enough, they will so pervert the program as to make it not only unrecognizable, but ineffective...
...grasshopper-power, but no one expects a true space engine to provide the massive thrust that is needed to free a heavy rocket from the earth's gravitation. Engines designed for use after a vehicle has been lofted into orbit need only a little thrust, but they must exert it for a long time, using only a whiff of fuel. Alfred E. Kunen, director of Republic's Plasma Propulsion Laboratory, explained that the plasma pinch engine will get its electricity from solar cells and store it temporarily in a battery. When thrust is needed, the engine can work...
...their Dallas headquarters, six executives known as "associates" keep a close watch over assigned portions of the Murchison empire, deciding the right time to buy, to sell, or to exert more control. The associates do not get large salaries, but they benefit from a friendly Murchison-and Texan-custom: helping friends to get rich by letting them in on deals. "We want our boys to make money," says John. "If one of them makes a million, we've made 10 million. Naturally, they need very little encouragement...
...further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be, and it is hereby made the duty of the President, Professors and Tutors of the University at Cambridge, Preceptors and Teachers of Academies, and all other instructors of youth, to take diligent care, and to exert their best endeavours, to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity; moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament...