Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aires from the British in 1806. There were parades and solemn ceremonies in the Plaza de Mayo, and symbolic torches were rushed to every corner of the country. But there were no torches to light the last hours of the parliamentary system that generations of Argentines had struggled to maintain...
Board President Louis La Bow said the meeting had been "a pleasant social gathering . . . most interesting." But another board member was more frank. Said he: "The musicians have the gall to say-and believe-that they have had to play down to conductors for years, and that they must maintain their own high standards. I'd love to hear Beecham's reply to that . . . They're musical mobsters. They're out to have Ali Baba for a chairman-there are just 40 of them...
...reading the roster at your left, TIME has 39 correspondents and executives in its own U.S. and Canadian News Service, 32 in its Foreign News Service, headquartered in the 28 cities throughout the world where we maintain permanent news bureaus. These are the full-time correspondents of the TIME organization we have set up to gather and verify the news-augmented by the full report we receive through our membership in the world-girdling Associated Press...
...much alone, knows that the flying public likes bargain fares. It also knows that popular opinion favors competition. But CAB's mandate is to develop "a stable air transport system," and CAB knows that where the scheduled lines have to make their regular flights full or empty, and maintain many a money-losing run for "public necessity," the irregulars wait for full planeloads and raid only heavy-money runs...
...gnaws the hole that is destined to grow into "an enormous breach [in] ... his integrity." Fever-racked, miserable Louise knows too well that though her husband may once have loved her, he feels nothing for her now but pity. And since "it had always been his responsibility to maintain happiness in those he loved," Scobie one day sets his integrity aside, surreptitiously borrows money from an unscrupulous Syrian (the only man who can afford the loan) and sends Louise off on the long vacation that is her heart's desire. It is also his (unadmitted) heart's desire...