Word: exerting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Civil Rights. The burden of the civil rights fight falls more on the presidency than Congress. "The next President must exert the great moral and educational force of his office to help bring equal access to public facilities, from churches to lunch counters, and to support the right of every American to stand up for his rights, even if on occasion he must sit down for them. For only the President, not the Senate and not the House and not the Supreme Court, can create the understanding and tolerance necessary as the spokesman for all the American people...
Even though the American government yields to mass pressure in favor of peace, the Chinese people do not exert a comparable pressure. Thus any change in our policy toward China would be useless now, Lindsay asserted, for "Chinese opinion of us is falsified in such a way that no type of change could alter their views...
Citation: "IHe] has continued to exert a salutary influence on the upper South through his forward-looking policies expressed in scholarly and humane editorials...
...last week, as it completed its second year in orbit, Vanguard had proved to have two virtues that the massive Soviet satellites lack. First, it soared into so high an orbit (apogee 2,500 miles above the earth, perigee 400 miles) that the outermost fringes of the atmosphere exert almost no slowing effect on its motion. It has kept going while heavier competitors sagged into the atmosphere and burned up; it has already circled the earth nearly 8,000 times, may keep up this schedule for 1,000 years...
...zeal of Southern Negro students rubbed off on white collegians thousands of miles away. Sympathy pickets appeared last week before Woolworth's stores in Boulder, Colo., Madison, Wis., and Boston, lent weight to a drive organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to exert economic pressure against five-and-dime chains. Variety stores in North and South were feeling the pinch of Negro economic pressure-a new weapon long deemed too risky-but so far the Negroes had not yet won so much as an integrated cup of coffee below the Potomac...