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It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

He held out a moment longer, then his nerve gave under the pressure.

Curt's fingers put a little more pressure on the trigger of his gun.

With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

Russ visited two places without result and his blood pressure was down to zero.

The cap was stuck and made a thin rusty squeaking as he applied pressure.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

There is unceasing pressure, but its sources are immediate.

Until recently, art has withstood the pressure of chaotic things.

Every slight sound that rose against that pressure fell away again, crushed beneath it.

One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.

Because the responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the President, rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties simple goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problems under political pressure.

It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

Under this kind of pressure, it is not surprising that Wright would make sweeping statements to the newspapers.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

`` He's got high blood pressure, too, and bum kidneys '', the doctor said to me.

He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

Does it employ crude pressure tactics with such means as anonymous telephone calls and letter writing campaigns??

Gen. Taylor, the President's special military adviser, is a level-headed officer who is not likely to succumb to propaganda or pressure.

They are putting strong pressure on their police departments to keep order.

`` U.S. pressure on Britain to foster war hysteria over the status of West Berlin has reached its apogee.