Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a fine start to the year should indicate that the Class of '60 will sustain its interest in intramurals for the rest of the year. The Athletic Council certainly hopes so. After the winter season closes, there will still be four more sports in which competitions will be held: softball, rowing, tennis, and track...
...many businessmen. In his own mirror, the average U.S. businessman sees an unyielding and uncompromising conservative face; yet he has been largely responsible for the dynamic forward drive of the U.S. economy that has had a revolutionary effect on American life. As the businessman has helped to sustain economic stability and translate it into human progress, he has assisted in a more sweeping democratization of society than dreamers dared prophesy a quarter-century...
...afflict him and all his household, a wind that was evil. And it smote him and all his house and he could not come near her nor did he know her." After two years of this, according to the scroll, not even Sarah's marvelous beauty could sustain the Pharaoh. He restored her to Abraham and sent them both out of Egypt "exceedingly rich in cattle and also in silver and gold...
...second to concentrate on the weak spots, a third to work intensively in important and crucial areas. Convinced that the Democrats had started their campaign too early, Nixon decided to wait until mid-September, aim his campaign to reach its peak in the latter half of October, then sustain the high pitch right up to election day. With the geography and the basic strategy settled, he gathered a staff of aides-most of them tested in the "Nixon Fund" days of the 1952 campaign-and directed them by his personal example of efficiency, industry and energy...
...Maurice Evans' musically wistful Richard, he seemed psychologically adventurous. He stressed the real selfishness and womanishness in so self-consciously royal, but wholly unkingly, a figure; he showed the spindly weakness behind what Coleridge called Richard's "wordy courage." But Actor Neville failed to deepen or sustain the role. It was not just that by wallowing in self-pity he never seemed pitiful; that might argue severity of purpose in an actor. Unhappily, he never seemed sick, or contemptible, or tragic either. He merely seemed elaborate. He turned rhetoric into verbosity and Richard's self-dramatizations into...