Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grey Falcons. So today in Yugoslavia Mihailovich leads, at best, only half of the guerrillas in a delaying action designed to maintain resistance until an Allied invasion comes to the rescue. The Partisans,† waiting for no invasion and traditionally sympathetic to Russia, are doing the major fighting. In his anguish, Mihailovich, as Chiang Kai-shek did in China in 1927, has labeled the Partisans criminals and ruffians. The exile Government has described them in the same vein, often credited their victories erroneously to Mihailovich...
...maintain that the boys here still like their scotch and soda, as they have since the days of bathtub-gin," Snowball insisted. "They may be buying more beer, but they still consume their scotch...
...student body which it has been created to serve, and plagued by new problems of war-time shortages, the University food system carries on. The task has always been great: it is now larger than ever. As long as is humanly possible the system will try to maintain its standards of giving the student the best to be had for the price paid, but patience, sacrifice, and above all, understanding, will help to make the burden lighter...
With these reduced resources, Stalin tackled his problem, trying to pick abler leaders for his Army, trying to improve its resistance, trying to maintain the morale of his underfed people, trying to extract more aid from his Allies and to get them to open a second front...
...have a dual problem. We must maintain our already huge establishment. Secondly, we must further expand it. The process of expansion itself immobilizes a million men: the men in training, the trainers, the service and medical troops and other overhead, the officer-candidate schools and various specialist schools. As we get toward the end of our expansion program, we will be able to plow back this overhead into replacements for the fighting forces...