Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and former director of the Joint Center, said Tuesday that "the new professorships will sustain our short-term research efforts, give them continuity, and relate more closely to action programs. Able people are scarce in this field; the Center has brought some, and this grant should attract more...
...perhaps on occasion even a stray faculty member, who in a moment of rage and frustration might feel like tearing the university limb from limb. From the standpoint of a commitment to human freedom such feelings are by no means totally irrational, because the universities do much more to sustain destructive trends--through the contribution of professional skills to the war and in numerous other ways -- than any amount of verbal criticism or even reasoned exposure can do to stop them. However, these angry feelings are so far but momentary gusts of passion, even if they could be harbingers...
...Ginger Baker, 28, is a dazzling drummer, perhaps the only one in the rock field who can sustain long, inventive solos. His crackling stickwork and splintered rhythms give Cream a complex yet driving beat that few rock groups can equal. An antic cockney, he drums on other things besides drums: on tours, he leaves behind a trail of hotel bills for damage to furniture and other property...
...below last year, the state is planning $400,000 in welfare payments for the Indians, Es kimos and Aleuts who do most of the fishing. The Federal Government is con- tributing surplus foods, and free am munition is being doled out so that they can hunt for meat to sustain them through the Alaskan winter. At a special session of the legislature, Governor Walter J. Hickel proposed that unemployment payments be stretched from the current 28 weeks to a full year...
...Clayton (Room at the Top) keeps his camera close to his subjects, frequently narrowing the field of vision to a telling detail-a hand on a sleeve, a pouring pitcher, a pair of eyes-again and again creating the effect of a sequence of stunning stills that build and sustain the mood. The children, though, are Clayton's triumph. Each of them is such an accomplished scene stealer that it is hard to tell whether the director deserves more credit for evoking acting ability in his brood or for keeping it under control...