Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Order from the Chief. Thus, says Moody, as he trudged through the final round last week, he kept repeating a verse from Philippians: "I can do all things through Christ." Other contenders muttered less inspiring words. Al Geiberger rallied with a string of birdies but failed to sustain his charge. Bob Rosburg lost the lead on the 18th green when he blew a 4-ft. putt. Deane Beman, the leader after 36 holes, faded with rounds he described as "medium lousy...
...compared with Japan's $1,100). China's recent Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the upheaval it caused may put domestic recovery ahead of foreign adventure for some time to come. Even before the Cultural Revolution, China was too weak in air, sea and industrial power to sustain a modern war much beyond its borders. However absurd it may seem to Americans, the Chi nese regard their actions in Korea and Viet Nam as defensive, and those in Tibet and India as attempts to regain territory that all Chinese (including the exiled Nationalists) have long claimed...
...that it is committed to Chiang Kai-shek's government, and by implication to his claim that he still heads the Republic of China. The U.S. is indeed committed to Chiang's regime by ties of history and honor. But it need not and cannot much longer sustain the fiction that Taiwan is China...
...mixture of benefits and headaches. On the plus side, they provide a vital source of private capital to finance world trade and the growth of international corporations. They bankroll oil exploration, highway construction and even occasional European government deficits. Without them, Europe would lack the investment capital to sustain its present Dace of economic growth. The Eurodollar pool has also become a leading haven for nervous money. Fearful of devaluation, individual speculators and treasurers of large corporations swap comparatively weak currencies like British pounds or French francs for Eurodollars...
...beneath the surface of her character lay the qualities that were to sustain Ethel Kennedy and all those around her?an absolute dedication to the duties of wife and mother, a total devotion to her Roman Catholic faith, a steely will and discipline. The Kennedy women are the choral figures in the family's saga. Their lot has been to bear witness and to endure. Each of them has done so with a grace and resilience peculiarly colored by her own temperament. Rose, the aloof matriarch, has achieved almost mythic indomitability...