Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rock. He is a foul-up sergeant in the Army Vocational and Cultural Corps, lecturing to monoglot Italian P.O.W.s, illiterate dockers and military no-hope types who are detailed to educational "parades" because nothing useful can be found for them to do. The Rock is not designed to sustain human life; it is a "chunk of strategic geology." It has escaped Axis capture only because-the bitter story goes-an American insurance company did not want its corporate symbol compromised. The Rock's only happy denizens are the Barbary apes-sexually emancipated pensioners who seem to be contemptuously aware...
...actor, Sir Robert resigned not once but four times-to Parliament, his party, the Governor General, and finally to the nation on television. "I have given careful thought to my future in the light of what seems best for the government and country," he "said. "I can no longer sustain the very long hours of work which once delighted me. My pace has slowed down. In short, I am tired...
Unfortunately this plot can't be amplified or varied enough to sustain interest more than about fifteen minutes. Watching Victim is like trying to watch daytime TV stunt shows for a week...
Because Pennsylvania's constitution bars him from a second successive term, Republican Governor William Scranton must use 1966, his last year in office, to good advantage if he is to retain the power base necessary to sustain future political ambitions. First off, he has to guard the right to choose his party's gubernatorial nominee, then get him elected. The loyalty of a grateful ally would thus give Scranton control of the Pennsylvania delegation to the 1968 Republican convention, which he must have before he can even think of trying again for the presidential nomination...
Nonetheless, Johnson has yet to address himself in particular to the great majority of Americans who generally support his Viet Nam policy, though not in many cases without a certain apprehension. To sustain the broad base of support that he will need as the war expands and the casualty lists lengthen, he will have to pierce the apathy of those who-as of now-trust the President to make the right decisions, but have no sense of involvement in Viet Nam. There is another sizable segment of the public that understands only too well the necessity of the U.S. presence...