Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate galleries were packed, mostly with union sympathizers. In the House they cheered the veto message when it was read. Some Congressmen looked up and yelled "Boo" at the galleries. The vote in the House was quick and overwhelming: 331 to override (225 Republicans and 106 Democrats); 83 to sustain (11 Republicans, 71 Democrats and New York City's man of the Labor Party, Vito Marcantonio...
...while I was sitting by my gravely ill husband's bedside in Geneva. . . . My only hope, expressed out of my utmost bitterness and despair, is that this alleged critic will find himself one day, alone in a strange city, without friends or family to comfort or sustain, at the bedside of a loved...
...protagonist of the drama in these climactic moments. It gives a sense of the individuality and of stylistic coherence, but also has some measures which give a certain sense of reminiscence, while seldom of specific influences. One wondered whether, if heard apart from its choreography, it would sustain interest at a constant pitch--in the impression of a first hearing the use of the musical ideas is stronger than the ideas themselves--but then it should be considered primarily as an essential part of the dance drama as a whole...
Brigadoon has a remote, wistful, storybook air. Not the least storybook part of it, naturally, is a romance between one of the Americans and a Brigadoon lass. (The other American just has a comic Lowland fling with a friendly baggage.) But Brigadoon mainly seeks to sustain a mood. The atmosphere of a fair is more important than who buys or sells, the ceremonial of a wedding more important than who gets married. And the music that runs through Brigadoon avoids sharp contrasts; much of it seems like variations on some nostalgic old Scottish tune. (But two or three pleasantly sentimental...
...last week, Federal Judge Frank A. Picard did his best to make the law look less like "a ass." He threw clear out of court the famed Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. case for portal-to-portal pay. If the Supreme Court-to which the case is quickly headed-should sustain him, there would be lifted from industry the threat of $5 billion in back-pay claims filed by scores of unions. If it should reverse him, the law would look more like "a ass" than ever...