Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Europe. As India's Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar put it during M.I.T.'s panel on "The Problem of Underdeveloped Areas": "Here are great areas that can fall victim to communism, for what better material for communism is there than people who cannot even sustain themselves...
...criticism, however, of Eleanor Davis' "Laudamusic," which was altogether competent. The soprano, Phyllis Curtin, had the most difficult role of all, particularly in the jumps of the "Et incarnatus est." Though she had many exquisite tones, she showed a slight unwillingness to land decisively on a note and sustain it. Tenor Summer Crockett was inaudible at times during his soles and his voles unpleasantly constrained...
...into rushing to the defense of unjustifiable attitudes. "Soviet leadership is astute in aiming its assaults against positions in the non-Communist world that are indefensible, morally or practically . . . We need not laud or sanctify whatever or whomever Communism attacks, and our material support should principally serve to sustain, fortify and enlarge human freedom and healthy economic and social conditions...
...Mhyrum as Roderigo, "the peon's amigo," Nick Benton as Roxanne Rye, and Palmer Dixon's leering portrayal of Fingers Spumoni carry the scenes where the script itself might not sustain a non-musical interlude; but it remained for Fred Gwynne, cast as Pablo the Peon, to stop the show...
...current hearing is the second official airing of the Van Waters case. Commissioner McDowell held a public hearing from January 16 to February 8, and ruled finally to sustain his original dismissal order...