Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Batista has almost no enthusiastic support among Cubans outside the government; Castro, by contrast, gets ardent backing from students, professional classes who chafe at the indignities and corruption of dictatorship, and the political left. But the Cuban masses refuse the danger and cost of active support for Castro and, by abstaining, line up for Batista. The eventual solution for divided Cuba is no more foreseeable than that of another violence-torn island-far-off Cyprus...
Diplomatic reports pouring into West Berlin indicated the United States, Britain and France would reject the Soviet maneuver. U.S. congressmen visiting the isolated city assured the fighting mayor staunch U.S. support...
...West Berliners, heartened by such outside support, defied grim Red hints of trouble when Moscow's six-month period for accepting the neutral city proposal expires...
...Student Council will go outside the College to solicit financial backing for its recently proposed trust fund, Marc E. Leland '59, Council president, said last night. There had previously been some speculation that the Council would attempt to obtain the financial support of the Faculty, but the funds involved in such a venture would be too large for the University, in its present expansion program, to supply...
Basically, McCurdy's and the team's effort was to support its three of four consistent runners with the depth necessary to win meets. Benjamin and Thompson were two seniors of whom McCurdy could expect a reliable performance, and the season more than established their worth...