Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allowing a baby to die in a unit that is technically equipped to sustain life indefinitely is indeed agonizing. That, however, is not so agonizing as seeing parents devastated by a diagnosis that their baby is severely damaged yet will survive. The medical profession as well as the public must pause to consider whether the efforts to cure are not interfering with our ability to care...
...their first entrance many of the characters in The Rivals are interesting, but Sheridan just cannot sustain that interest for two hours. He tried by adding a secondary romance between Faulkland (Andrew Brooks) and Lydia's cousin, Julia (Maeve Kinkead). Brooks is especially good in his portrayal of the contrite and contrary Faulkland, running first hot, then tepid, then cold, then hot again...
...veterans-Film Critic Stanley Kauffmann, White House Reporter John Osborne and the salty TRB Contributor Richard Strout of the Christian Science Monitor-help sustain the magazine's flair for bright commentary. For the purchase price of $380,000 (plus a somewhat larger amount in pending taxes), Peretz has also acquired a special responsibility: to maintain the unusual character that the New Republic has acquired in American journalism since earlier writers like Walter Lippmann, Bruce Bliven and Edmund Wilson began burnishing its pages...
...described in even fuller detail in the indictment, though the evidence leading the grand jury to believe that the statements were false is tantalizingly omitted. Several allegations of falsehood are charged even when a defendant testified that he could not recall an alleged act. Such accusations are difficult to sustain without documentary evidence or corroboration by several witnesses, and they are certain to be vigorously attacked by defense attorneys...
...sheep man, I suppose I should be sheepish about admitting that I have never killed a coyote [Feb. 11]. We do not hate the coyote; we admire and respect him. However, our family operation has just about reached the end of its financial rope in our ability to sustain the ecological balance with the contribution we have made in ewes and lambs to the coyote. We plan to abandon raising sheep and join those who would have them become an endangered species in America...