Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Linton and Psychologist Jack D. Hain had originally feared that the withdrawn, introverted patients might become disorganized and panic under the drug; they were surprised to find that their rigid control-which may be a part of their emotional illness-proved enough to sustain them through an experience that they disliked intensely. Only the subjects who might normally be classed as sensation seekers reacted like thrilled acidheads...
...Goldberg says, in the understatement of the minute, "from an overdose of good shows." That is because TV obviously suffers from a severe underdose of talent. There are just not enough good writers and performers to satisfy television's voracious appetite, so even the best entertainers can rarely sustain anything beyond mediocrity...
...asked that members pledge $.50 a week to help sustain the organization's sagging finances...
...Question of Price. Washington seems delighted with the slight autumn chill. "The trend," insisted Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr, "is definitely toward a rate of growth which the economy can sustain." Added Chief Presidential Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley: "The economy today is pretty much what I like...
Other incidents Brown relates--meetings with an African game hunter who milks cobras for a living and a cabdriver who insists the boards have to ride in the trunk--are genuinely amusing and sustain the film...