Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assistant to God." In 1954 President Eisenhower named Rockefeller his special assistant on foreign policy (succeeding TIME Inc. Vice President C. D. Jackson). After reading the President's letter appointing Rockefeller to work for "increased understanding and cooperation among all peoples ... to achieve and sustain the basic essentials of human dignity," one Administration official exclaimed: "This is so sweeping it makes him an assistant...
Novelist Kenneth (Northwest Passage) Roberts likes men who pull their weight. His heroes are generally fellows whose characters are compounded of the good, old-fashioned virtues, and their crises sometimes find them with little but hope to sustain them under pressure. His new novel, Boon Island-the first since Lydia Bailey in 1947-is a grim little tale of survival. Based on a true story, it tells of a shipwreck in which each man's size and courage are fully measured during 24 days of simple horror...
...play in the second period was relatively even, except when Penn scored at 5:50 as Gus Gutierez converted a pass from Bob Hennessy. For the most part, Penn could sustain an attack longer than the Crimson, but quick breaks gave the Crimson better scoring chances, which its poor shooting nullified...
...fighting men subscribe to a code as strict as this Soldier's Code when we have read about a man of God-a man whose very strength and being rested with God-who broke and signed a confession under Communistic torture? Cardinal Mindszenty's faith could not sustain him in his hours of torture. Why should we expect our men to be able to do better...
...Illinois Central lifted its net a thumping 54% to $14 million. With 1956 auto production just getting under way and heavy construction still booming, steelmakers, already at 91.4% of capacity, wondered how they could fill their fall orders. The magazine Iron Age said that the demand for steel would sustain operations at 100% of capacity if only the steelmakers could reach that goal...