Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gallant; many were the fearful, the rootless, the lost. Tammany cared for them when the U.S. Government and most of its higher-minded citizens were unwilling or unable to do so. Tammany fed them, led them, got them houses, found them jobs-and used their votes to sustain itself in power...
Hopefully, Eisenhower kept alive the note of optimism by a little concluding talk. "If we can preserve and sustain this spirit of friendship ... I am sure that there will be much progress made...
...statement following Cornell's action, Singer said: "I followed the dictates of my conscience and did what I felt should be done in honor and principle. I am hopeful that the courts will sustain me." The Cornell Daily Sun, undergraduate daily, was sharply critical of the University's decision to relieve Singer of his teaching duties...
Neely was wasting his breath: the veto was sure to be upheld. Twenty Republican Senators had voted for the raise (to keep their fences mended at home), now planned to vote to sustain the veto (to keep their fences mended with the Administration). The 54 to 39 vote in favor of overriding was eight short of the necessary two-thirds majority. With the 8.8% raise out of the way, the Senate Post Office Committee immediately began work on an 8% postal pay-increase bill, which has a good chance of passing and being signed by the President...
...demonstrably false ("Don Juan or donkey, we are all alike in our love-making") and sometimes alarming ("Every male in the grip of passion behaves . . . like an impetuous bull"), others are shrewd and accurate, e.g., "As an artist ... do not labor under any illusion that society will safeguard or sustain...