Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While there have been freshman literary magazines in the past, they have usually only lasted for one year, said Gadol. The Advocate's freshman supplement "will sustain itself from year to year since it is being overseen by our junior staff," he said...
...still unclear how many residents of Mameyes caught in the slide's path survived the fall, but those who did escaped soon after the disaster struck. Unlike the havoc wrought by last month's earthquake in Mexico, the mud slide left no lifesaving pockets of air to sustain the trapped...
...plenty: the U.S. is still the world's biggest exporter by 27% over runner-up West Germany). Such retaliation is what happened after Congress passed the disastrous Smoot-Hawley tariff act in 1930 (see box). Just enough Senators and Representatives will change their minds on a revote to sustain the veto. Then will follow a confused struggle between legislators fearful of a trade war yet determined to force Reagan to do more to promote exports and curtail imports, and a President wary of drastic moves yet aware that he has to do something to start trimming the trade deficit...
...tension in the film between God as reasonable and Reason as god might have been engaging, like the crunch of cold modern science and warm timelessly-fashioned love. And the acting of Peter O'Toole, who worked similar magic in The Stunt Man, should have been able to sustain the tension between the comic and philosophical elements in the character of the tastefully crazed academic...
...difficult to distinguish where the bad lines end and the bad acting begins. For example, even with his best effort, O'Toole could not sustain the overly-profound weight of an endless series of cliches on life, the universe, and everything that he is commanded to deliver. On the other hand, Mariel Hemingway's pathetic Madonna Wanna-Be portrayal of O'Toole's would-be fiancee is surely worse than what any amount of bad dialogue could explain away. And for lingering, breathless male fans of Star 80, take a deeeeeep breath: Hemingway isn't even looking good...