Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FINAL VOTE was 118-30 to sustain Mutscher's ruling, but the Dirty Thirty--in a last gasp parliamentary manuever--had finally forced the House membership to take a stand on an issue that most of them hoped would never reach the floor...
...Another reason for the intensified research into high-energy lasers in both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. is that they may finally offer the means to achieve the enormously high temperatures (several hundred million degrees Fahrenheit) needed to sustain fusion reactions for power production
When Symons' battery is in use, the heat produced by its electrochemical reactions breaks the chlorine hydrate apart into its separate components. The freed chlorine is released directly into the battery's electrolytic solution, where it helps sustain the electricity-producing chemical reactions. Because the chlorine remains dissolved, it is no more of a threat to driver or passengers than the acid in an ordinary battery...
...music that's best suited to the stage; their complete irrepressibility just doesn't come across as well on record. The roots of the music lie in Buffalo Springfield's Los Angeles rock of the late sixties. Since the Springfield was burdened with more talent than it could ever sustain, it had to collapse, and when it did, the boys in the band went separate ways. Stills and Young went on to sometime solo careers. Furay and Messina formed Poco, to get a little closer to the country than they could with the folkrockers. Poco, after a very slow start...
Farber's journey was the result of a controversy last Spring over Harvard's ownership of 683,000 shares of Gulf stock. Saying that Gulf's maintenance of drilling operations in Angola helps sustain Portuguese rule there, a group of 40 black students occupied Massachusetts Hall for seven days to dramatize their demand that Harvard sell its Gulf stock...