Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buchenwald did not have a diet, really. There was a form of soup once a day and some bread. The amount doesn't matter; it was not enough to sustain life. I saw hundreds of Buchenwald's 21,000 (there had been 48,000 but more than half had been evacuated to the interior of Germany) who were as starved as the corpses in the crematorium yard. You cannot adequately describe starved men; they just look awful and unnatural. There was nothing but their bones beneath the tightly stretched skin, none of the roundedness, the curving...
...freedom from our exterior enemies, the church will not ease up in this fight. We still have many enemies. The devil, the world and our own lust have assumed great power. . . . Liberation was accompanied by the burning and destruction of houses and homes, of everything the people needed to sustain life. In many places churches . . . have been destroyed. The free Norwegian soil has become the scorched earth. . . . Every head of a Christian family is a pastor in his own home. . . . The [ministry] must feel . . . that in every hut he has helpers...
...produces the meticulous emotional suspense which keeps the movie on its feet and the audience pinned to its collective chair. Everyone knows from the start that everything's going to turn out all right, but there's always that doubt-and it's the human atmosphere that has to sustain the interest...
...Burmese girl from whom, coil by heavy coil, the brass wire of her immemorial feminine bondage is unwound, baring a deformed neck almost too weak to sustain her emancipated head...
Supplies for two divisions were to begin flowing in at once. At week's end it was estimated that "a few weeks" would suffice to make the port a funnel for the great flood of supplies needed to. sustain General Montgomery's offensive...