Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People on the Beach. At this moment, the admiral back on his carrier got an urgent message: the enemy was exert ing strong pressure all along the Naktong front (see above) and all available aircraft were needed. Ed Ewen, who used to be considered a very good Annapolis end, especially famed for his end-around plays, now pulled an end-around play that would have brought Navy fans to their feet had they been there to watch...
...reputation had been earned as much by its mistakes as its successes. U.S. reluctance to exert its power and leadership, U.S. hesitancy to act decisively and consistently had cost the free world dearly in the past. From Korea last week, New York Timesman Richard J. H. Johnston reported in alarm that "the average G.I. seems not to know why he is fighting in Korea." "The recruiting posters didn't say anything about this," a young infantryman told him. "I'll fight for my country, but damned if I see why I'm fighting to save this hell...
...opening. Another poet, Jacques Prévert, had written a catalogue foreword which described Miró as "a smiling innocent gardener who strolls about in the garden of his dreams among the wild flowers of Multicolorado." It was a strange country, but Miro's multicolored Multicolorado did exert a cloudy charm on sympathetic visitors-just as children's paintings often...
...have a scholastic obligation, he either goes back to sleep, plays a little croquet on the lawn, or tosses a couple of horseshoes. The crewmen are not permitted to injure themselves and are therefore restricted to such relatively tame activities; in any case, they have little inclination to exert themselves. A ten mile row before breakfast (when the river is calm) is generally enough to eliminate any desires they harber for violent exercise later...
Catholic population, the papers are equally careful not to print any news which might offend the church, even though top Boston newsmen know of no instances where it has tried to exert pressure on the newspapers. Nevertheless, such stories as the debate between Paul Blanshard and Father George H. Dunne at Harvard in February over the political power of the church are virtually ignored (only the Globe printed a story on the debate). Such sacred cows, real or fancied, tend to blunt the nose-for-news of even the best reporters...