Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along with the problems of the offensive line, Restic underscored Harvard's inability to make the big play as reason for the Saturday loss. "We didn't generate any offense until the third quarter when Mill Holt came in," the coach said. "We couldn't sustain any movement down the field...
...principal characters in the Houston skyjacking and in an unsuccessful attempt two days later at New York City's Kennedy Airport seem to give Hubbard's theories even more credence. Charles Tuller, who led the band that took over the Eastern jet, could not sustain his marriage, hated his exwife, and was said to be awkward and uncomfortable around women. The man who was subdued before he could hijack a National Airlines jet in New York was discovered to be wearing women's underclothes. What is known about both men seems to confirm Hubbard's belief...
...sure how well McGovern understands economics," Roberts said simply. "His greatest quality is his capacity to sustain moral outrage at a time when the repetitiveness of moral disaster numbs the average person. But, the most successful political figures in modern times have known how to integrate this moral outrage with an apparent confidence and sophistication on nuts-and-bolts issues, like the economy...
...Review Committee recommends that a general education course be developed. They also suggest that the Department should have a graduate program, "but its implementation should be deferred until the undergraduate program has achieved sufficient strength and status to sustain" such endeavor...
...Lolita, one might think that cityfolk like Mrs. Roiphe should stay off the road and leave the driving to the sons and daughters of the wide-open spaces. Long Division is a disappointing book by a talented writer. What it lacks is convincing physical settings or incidents to sustain the mournful interior monologues of the trapped and finally boring heroine. The author is energetic enough. She offers accounts of breakdowns and highway fatigue, as well as side trips to the Hershey chocolate factory, a Cherokee reservation and an old-people's settlement. Emily Brimberg Johnson passes many other promising...