Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admission could be taken up anew. "Don't take a vacation during the Christmas season," Rey warned newsmen. Before year's end, he expects marathon sessions to wind up the Common Market's interim period of tariff adjustments, to sort out the thorny agriculture support-price issue, and to grant increased supranational powers to the EEC's executive and parliament. Said Rey: "If the solutions are not ready at midnight on Dec. 31, we will stop the clock and 1970 will commence a few hours later." In his opinion, 1970 belongs to Britain...
...Lincoln, through Bayard Taylor, the U.S. minister to St. Petersburg, in 1862 sought and obtained a pledge of Russian support for the Union, should either Britain or France intervene on the side of the South. The Russians actually dispatched warships to the U.S. to demonstrate their support...
...theory soon gathered support on both sides of the screen. Suddenly the films of Alfred Hitchcock or Orson Welles could be spoken of as works with strands of philosophy running through them, like the plays of Racine. Republic Pictures' westerns and Warner Brothers' gangster films from the '40s were reappraised as examples of directorial brilliance...
...Astute presidents foster this new involvement with frequent explanatory letters to alumni and parents. After a sit-in at the University of Pennsylvania, for example, President Gaylord Harn-well sent a communique stressing that the protesters had obeyed Penn's rules for demonstrations. Back came many letters of support and $5,000 in unsolicited contributions...
Today, with the animals gone, the visitor's eye is drawn to the delicate yet cleverly engineered network of wooden joists that support the roof. This inside structuring makes possible vast, interior spaces that seem as impressive, because of the humble materials used, as those of cast-iron railroad stations or steel-structured airline terminals...