Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THIS capital teems with testaments to the tragic miscalculations and near-fatal results of U.S. policy toward the Chinese Nationalists and Formosa. The visible, jarring fact is that the U.S. has created a situation which now makes it well-nigh impossible to sustain any effective position whatever on and toward Formosa. If the miscalculations of the State Department are retrieved, it will be only because Formosa's Nationalists, in their extremity, are able and willing to make retrieval possible...
...love triangle, unembellished by sociological, patriotic, or religious overtones. Played straight as it is, this makes for an un muddied plot. But the actors are not always able to take advantage of their necessary importance in such a movie; they could have excelled, instead they sometimes fail even to sustain an average level of competence at the art. Overplaying of scenes is not infrequent, and always noticeable...
There are several songs in this picture, including a ballad called "baby Won't You Say You Love Me" and "Wilhelmina, The Cutest Little Girl in Copenhagen." The former is the key to Miss Grable's downfall because what little voice she has is not sufficient to sustain a note. Unfortunately the number has several sustained notes...
...these methods," President Jordan said, "and a possible slight increase in lunchroom charges, we hope to bring the accounts into balance." Because of the lunchroom's importance, the College can afford to sustain a small loss, Jordan explained, but must still avoid a large...
...addition to the $40,000 loss he must sustain, Madden said, he has also had to contend with the loss of faith in him by prospective financial backers for a new range in Woburn. When the University did not offer him the land for sale, these backers refused to aid him on the grounds that the University must have had ulterior motives for its action...