Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the plague, boards an international express train bound for Sweden. For reasons n.f.e., Burt Lancaster, the American intelligence agent in charge of arresting both crook and disease, orders the cars sealed (to prevent an epidemic), then diverts the express to Poland over a rickety bridge scarcely able to sustain the weight of a handcar. Lancaster persists in this curious decision despite information that spontaneous remission is occurring in all those infected...
...increasing prospect of a disastrous drought had ramifications far beyond the West. It raised once again basic questions of how the nation should use one of its most vital resources, just how much population growth the available water can sustain. As the U.S. faced what scientists termed the most serious drought conditions anywhere on the globe, a world perennially short of food might not be able to look to America to ease its hunger. Domestic food prices seemed certain to increase, job layoffs could follow as water-and hydroelectric-hungry industries are forced to reduce their operations. Added...
Without more "liquid gold," Arizonans fear that they will not be able to sustain either their $1.2 billion-a-year agricultural output or their fast-growing population. In the past five years, the number of state residents has risen by almost half a million, to 2,270,000-the biggest percentage increase in the nation. This year alone, the population could jump another 5% as more and more Easterners settle in the state-fleeing the harshest winter they have ever known for the bounteous life of the Sunbelt...
...more records than any conductor in the world), television appearances, cocktail longesque "Evening At Pops", Esplanade concerts, Arthur Fiedler wrist watches and all manner of red-white-and-blue paraphernalia honoring Boston's "Most Outstanding Citizen", as Fiedler was names several years ago, Pops has been able to financially sustain both itself and its host...
...rather than accept more food than prisoners of war were offered inside occupied France. With what one doctor later called "total lucidity of mind" and a saintly air of peaceful self-possession, Weil drove herself to the point where her body could no longer take in enough food to sustain life. Apologizing to her English doctors for her stubbornness a Dr. Brockerford reports that Weil explained that she "couldn't eat when she thought of the French people starving in France...