Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western powers offered far-reaching proposals on German reunification and European security, and put forward reasonable offers to reach an interim agreement on West Berlin. The Soviet Union, however, revealed clearly that its true desire is to absorb West Berlin into East Germany and to keep Germany divided until it can be brought under Soviet influence...
There was no reason for the Navy to be red-faced about the truth. The mission was perfectly legal; electronics-crammed planes patrol regularly outside the Communist-claimed twelve-mile limit. Their missions are essential; it is the prime duty of U.S. forces to keep track of the relentless Communist buildup at key Asian jumping-off points. The Mercator's flight was part of the hazardous duty that crewmen long ago came to accept as normal in the Asian aerial no man's land. Since the Korean armistice of 1953, Communist and U.S. planes have exchanged fire...
...their funds to a private school for whites only. By reminding the school board, Faubus and other officials that they are still under a federal court mandate to move into an integration program, the court put Little Rock back where it was when Faubus used the National Guard to keep nine Negro students out of Central High School in September 1957. Said Board President Everett Tucker jr.: The board will be prepared to open all schools this September under the original 1957 integration plan...
Semantic Upkeep. Britain has stayed busy supplying semantic changes to keep pace with events. India and Pakistan, both republics, became members of the monarchical Commonwealth on condition that they acknowledge the Crown as "Head of the Commonwealth." At a London Conference in 1949 the assembled Prime Ministers issued a communique that began with a reference to "the British Commonwealth" and ended with a declaration of unity by the "free and equal members of the Commonwealth." It was no accident that the adjective "British" vanished in transit. Lester ("Mike") Pearson, then Canada's External Affairs chief, recalls...
...with one or two exceptions, Hollywood girls couldn't be both sexy and funny. Nowadays they insist on being so-called complete women-healthy and natural. The new crop of actresses is dedicated to the proposition that the girl next door can also be sexy. They want to keep one eye on the baby and let the other eye rove...