Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TEDIUM. The era of massive student dissent is now in its sixth year. Few movements can long sustain such an emotional pitch and tension. This fall, students are tired or frustrated or both; they are aware that some problems cannot be solved overnight. CAMBODIA/KENT STATE. The protests last May unified moderate students, who until then had been a kind of silent majority. This had the effect of isolating the radicals, who, in the absence of a restraining force, had previously operated as the vanguard of the student movement. Cambodia/Kent State also opened new lines of communication within universities...
...which an attempt to block ABM was defeated. The only major fight he lost by a narrow vote was the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court; the four appropriations bills Nixon vetoed had all been passed by overwhelming margins, and he was able to sustain the veto in two cases. The Democrats whom Nixon tried to defeat are now much less likely to work with him, and Republican moderates and liberals are incensed about the elimination of Goodell. "There're going to be fewer Pavlovian responses around here," predicted one senatorial assistant...
...centuries we've been breeding meat animals toward faster growth and earlier maturity. There are great benefits for a protein-hungry world, but we're creating freaks that have very low natural tolerance to disease and infection, and the fodder crops won't sustain them," Whittaker added...
Radcliffe passing was weak in the game, and the team was unable to sustain an attack. The first twenty-minute half passed with no score by either side, although elegant Pine Manor wing Beth Clark made several threatening advances...
There is a gamble in Nixon's decision to commit himself so heavily, but it seems a shrewd one. If the Republicans sustain serious setbacks, he will suffer a blow to his prestige. However, losses in a mid-term election are likely to be soon forgotten or explained away, while any gain in strength will be a boost for Nixon, allowing the President to claim that he has won a national referendum on his policies...