Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Article 3: ... The parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack...
Calm Intention. Many Republican leaders seemed calmly confident of their ability to maintain order and check Communism in Indonesia. At week's end, President Soekarno repeated that he had no intention of yielding to Communist pressure, but warned that the Communists in Indonesia would grow stronger every day that the Dutch put off granting real national independence...
...with this single exception (that of Communist Party members)," the President continued, "which is the unique product of our century, I maintain that a professor's political views, social philosophy or religion are of no concern to the University; nor are his activities within the law as a private citizen...
...bounds as members of the teaching profession. I should not want to be a party to the appointment of such a person to a teaching position with tenure in any educational institution. But with this single exception which is the unique product of our century, I maintain that a professor's political views, social philosophy or religion are of no concern in the University; nor are big activities within the law as a private citizen. I do not have to remind this audience that this is the traditional Harvard position and will be maintained in the face of whatever criticisms...
...Church, which preaches the brotherhood of man, and the primacy of love, provides for priest and wife in their old age just about half the sum needed to maintain a minimum standard of life. It is conduct such as this, conduct bringing religion into disrepute, which in the age of Jesus was called the desecration of God's Name...