Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of occasional difficulties, the fraternities do not exert a particularly oppressive influence on the college community as a whole. In fact, they probably figure very little in the thinking of the non-fraternity man. While it would be inaccurate to say that anyone who wants to can get into a fraternity--there are undoubtedly disappointments on the part of some students--the average independent is likely to be an independent by choice and is very largely indifferent to the whole fraternity system...
...there much evidence that Mendès intended to exert his dynamism to press really hard for EDC; he remained vulnerable, in the deathly climate of Geneva, to Communist pressure against the No. 1 objective of U.S. cold war strategy: the rearmament of Germany. "In Mendès-France's office in the Quai d'Orsay," cabled TIME correspondent André Laguerre, "I could hear the worn old cry: 'We must do nothing brutal to provoke the Communists...
...Hanoi, TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin asked the Vietnamese governor if he would leave. "If I stay here with the Communists," the governor replied, pointing skyward, "I shall stay forever-up there." Then what would happen to Bacninh's anti-Communist villagers? "We are lost. The Viet Minh will exert pressure against the families and the village elders. It will be easy for the Communists. They are the victors. Who can resist the victors...
...thing the oil companies discovered was that no one had measured the full power of hurricanes. No one knew what force a wave could exert far below the surface of the sea, and no one had decided how high the surface would be lifted by hurricane winds...
...their concert grands, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. Theodore E. Steinway gives constant proof that out of great tension may come rich harmony." Edward R. Murrow.......LL.D...