Word: exertions
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...each island, there always seems to be still another island beyond the horizon. But islands are not the only areas to exert a strange drawing power. In tourism as in geopolitics, the great land masses have a vast strategic pull. If there is a mystique of the island, there is also a mystique of the continent. While some travelers are magnetically attracted by the Demote speck on the map and by the isolation of surrounding ocean, others are drawn by the large, solid patches and the isolation of the landlocked interior. To them, Africa is perhaps the most challenging tourist...
...combined efforts to produce three goals in six minutes of the second frame, making the score 7-0. The Jumbo defensemen had been playing hard, and, amid the cries of the coach to "put two men on the man with the ball. . . . doubleteam that ball-handler," they tried to exert more pressure on the Crimson attack only to watch midfielder Pete Sieglaff skirt past them and dump the ball into the nets...
...Have you had homosexual relations?) and were threatened with deportation or detention camps at McAllen, Texas, if they got out of line. They say that in the final stages, the Pentagon moved in to take direct control of the operation. The Frente representative was removed when he tried to exert some authority, and the Batista followers in the camps moved toward the leadership, working with a militant young opportunist named Manuel Artime, 28, onetime Catholic student leader at Havana University and a Frente subchief who schemed to leapfrog into supreme power. When one Frente man mentioned the Batista recruits...
...administer the oath and affidavit themselves and the campaign for repeal began. The act is up for renewal this year, and 1001 (f) will not disappear quietly. If the academic community wants to get rid of the affidavit (it is apparently willing to live with the oath), it must exert even more pressure than it did last year...
Gartner called the demonstration "an attempt to exert moral pressure' on the S.S. Kreage department store chain to finish their desegregation. The chain is completely integrated except for stores in five cities in the South...