Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't sustain any offensive pressure after that second goal," Tomassoni said. "We're making some incorrect decisions, some incorrect reads...
...Rent control is dead," said Senate minority leader Brian P. Lees (R-East Longmeadow) following the votes. "We have the votes to sustain the veto. The arrogance of the politicians in these communities did not win, the voters...
...also adapted from Woolf, aired on PBS), Atkins is every bit as good as the dowdy, neurasthenic Virginia. It is the language that is the raison d'etre here, and the two actresses toy with it deliciously. Nevertheless, the material is simply not weighty enough to sustain the nearly 2 1/2 hrs. The words are beautiful, but the subject matter -- auto trips, Virginia's health, contemporaries unknown to us -- becomes tedious...
...grossed $6 million; for 1993 the figure was more than $100 million. When another magazine editor, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., was chosen in 1979, he was 35 and ran an irreverent, relatively obscure, right-wing monthly called the American Spectator; now, with a rich subject like Bill Clinton to sustain it, the American Spectator's circulation has grown to 10 times what it was in 1979, and conservatives treat its editor as if he were Rush Limbaugh crossed with George Bernard Shaw...
...intelligent and exhaustingly researched biography of Lawrence, Brenda Maddox succeeds in raising her subject above the level of talented pornographer. The 600 page-plus D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, is a volume of Mailer-ish manly heft. Nevertheless, the author manages to sustain the reader's interest throughout, allowing Lawrence to stand on his own--contradictions...