Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scandal, have raised problems with which such a Parliament is unfitted to deal. Rehabilitation has to be concentrated in a power capable of effective action in order that decisions can be made quickly. Lacking such executive leadership, the country has blundered from one crisis to another, never able to maintain a continuous domestic or foreign policy due to the changing complexion of the multitudinous cabinets...
Lowell House must beat Brooks today to maintain its position as a strong contender for the title in the House football league, while Adams and Kirkland will right it out for a position in the running...
Reports tonight indicated that the Republicans would win between 10 and 25 seats in the House but might lose at least four in the Senate. Experts predicted that the Democrats would maintain control of both Houses in the 74th Congress
...veiled disdain of London socialites who pretend to accept him. He accuses a fellow member of a house party of robbing him. As the evidence gathers against Captain Dancy (Miles Mander), his friends assemble to defend him. The conflicting ties of race and honor that force de Levis to maintain his accusation compel Dancy to take his denial into court. There the racial solidarity that has formed to protect him ends by destroying Dancy, in a scene whose theatrical effectiveness does not mar its honesty...
...five students suspended were connected with the National Student League, and according to Dr. Ernest Moore, provost of the university, were guilty of attempting "to destroy the university by handing it over to an organized group of Communist students." Dr. Moore further charged that the quintet had attempted to maintain an open forum which had "inclined toward radicalism...