Word: sustainer
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Emotionally cornered and widely condemned, the whites of South Africa are the prisoners of a status quo that is murderous to sustain and suicidal to abandon. Their response to this dilemma is not in itself surprising: the more their racist system is branded as offensive, the more defensive, and dangerous, they become. "The first habit we instill," says Hennie van der Merwe, "is the habit not to ask questions...
...thousand people leaving each week. The army had not been involved; as for the fire that consumed shelters, officials variously described it as an accident, a precaution against an outbreak of cholera, and the work of a demented arsonist. The authorities insisted that departing refugees were given rations to sustain them on their walk and that they would receive seeds for planting once they reached their homes...
...manager this year," he promised in the spring. "A bad start will not affect Yogi's status." Looking as he has always looked, like a taxicab with the doors open, Berra took his leave after 16 games with an old Yankee grace. He has never been able to sustain a grudge against baseball. In 1975, when Berra was discharged as manager of the New York Mets, he spoke of needing to distance himself from the game. "I'm going to take my family on a trip," he said, "and get as far away from baseball as I can." When...
...stuffy in an unfunny way. The rahther heavy English accents and the constant over-acting are initially acceptable, but as the play wears on the over-acting wears thin and the over-Oxbridge intonations make Coward's dry witticisms positively and Coward's eternally fresh wit is enough to sustain interest, but one almost wishes a kid from Brooklyn would wander in for a change of pace. Something more in the way of contrast is needed; Lisa Peers, as the straightforward cockney maid, comes close to fitting the bill...
...drawbacks of the artificial heart have led many doctors to conclude that the device should be used only as a temporary measure to sustain a patient until a human donor heart can be found. "I'm not sure that it should be considered a permanent transplant," says famed Houston Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey...