Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Should he sustain the indictments, Judge Aldrich will move to set a trial date as soon as possible. June or September have been mentioned as possible times for the trial, which might last only...
...sometimes will ask questions that have already been answered." Also, she and her cohorts know from sad experience that if the first contestant is not interesting or gay or entertaining, the show generally does not get off the ground: "Once you get started well, the mood is easy to sustain, but after a bad beginning, you have to fight to recapture your audience...
...obvious," said the Appeals Court, "that segregation cannot be justified as a means to preserve the public peace merely because the tangible facilities furnished to one race are equal to those furnished to the other . . . Racial segregation in recreational activities can no longer be sustained as a proper exercise of the police power of the State; for if that power cannot be invoked to sustain racial segregation in the schools, where attendance is compulsory and racial friction may be apprehended from the enforced commingling of the races, it cannot be sustained with respect to public beach and bathhouse facilities...
...major immediate danger is not that they will disappear, but that too few will major in them to keep their departments going, and that not enough students will enter teaching to sustain them in the future. The financial appeal of professions in the social and natural sciences underlies much of this danger. Business too often has demanded technically trained people though simultaneously mouthing approval of the humanities. Possibly a compromise between education and business could be worked out wherein business would assume much of the specialized training after graduation and depend on the colleges for more general, liberal instruction. Today...
Actor Burton, the young British player who made his first big U.S. success in The Robe, does his best, which is never less than vivid, to sustain the early tone; and Moss Hart's script lends him a hand. Drama strides the scene: Is the son as mad as the father? Love (Maggie McNamara) walks in, to soothe his fevered brow. And just when the action has settled down to a nice homey drone of hysteria, almost as dull as Saturday night in Bedlam-bang! Brother John (John Derek) puts a bullet into Abraham Lincoln, and the public takes...