Word: sustains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of Peking had no Red Square, like Moscow's. So the Reds made one. In Gate-of-Heavenly-Peace Square, at the gates to the Forbidden City of the Manchus, where Mao now dwells in palatial simplicity, the army had laid a new roadway strong enough to sustain the crunch of parading Red tanks. Red bunting had been distributed to citizens by the bolt-even the coolies' rickshaws were red-draped. A band of 700 musicians played the new song, The East Is Red, the Sun Is Rising; schoolchildren released thousands of peace doves, which napped...
...play is basically a mystery and for a mystery to fulfill its purpose there must be some element of suspense to sustain the action, some unknown fact which either the audience or the actors would like to know...
...practical factors: a Carthaginian peace would breed misery and poverty, which in turn would breed Communism. If Japan should fall that way, the result would be disastrous for the West. Japan's industrial potential, integrated with the resources of Manchuria, might be enough to enable the Communists to sustain a long world war, even...
Students shelled out five dollar bills in Harvard Square yesterday, and each one went a long way. A five spot will feed an Indian for 200 days, while as little as one dollar will sustain a child for 50 days...
...twenty-six year old conductor still has a lot to learn. His interpretations of Haydn and Mozart were much too heavy-handed; and his readings of the Romantic composers were frequently muddy because of his inability to sustain the melodic line. However, Stanger exhibited a firm grasp of the modern idiom, and his performances of three recent compositions were the highlights of the season...