Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welder's triumph enabled them to maintain a perfect season record of two wins in as many starts, and come into undisputed possession of first place by moving out in front of Thayer and Matthews, who each have one victory against no losses. The Sad Sacks of Straus and the Vets of Holworthy are deadlocked in a tie for third place with two wins and one loss, while a .500 percentage puts the Wigglesworth Wonders in fourth slot...
...claim made by the gentleman is that Liberalism is dying, allegedly because such Liberalism requires a moral basis which it is unable to create or maintain. This is absolutely false. The ideas of goodness in the broader sense are not the exclusive property of, or even result of, religion. The basic ideas of decent and cooperative behavior are but the inevitable product of intelligent people who wish to live together in harmony...
...better machines to do their work for them. The "manpower shortage" was also a reflection of the cruel overlap between the old responsibilities of empire and the newly limited capabilities of an impoverished country. In the week of the coal crisis, Britain's Government decided to maintain its armed forces at over a million men. Many (including the Communists) had urged Britain to abandon her commitments in Greece, Palestine and elsewhere, and to cut her Army to the bone. The Times of London replied: "A nation which lives by overseas trade and which, however grievous its present distress...
...British failure to put Greece back on its political and economic feet was inevitable. All the British ever had a chance to do, or ever tried to do, was to maintain a minimum of order until the Greeks found leaders of sufficient wisdom and moderation to govern. The roster of current Greek political figures holds little hope for the future...
...plague-on-your-house in the case of the present crisis. The peace of Europe is too much intertwined with the productive capacity of the British Isles for Americans to be unconcerned when this industrial potential fritters away in the face of a winter storm. If the British cannot maintain their internal living-standard, British commitments everywhere must be sealed down proportionately, and the resulting vacuum must be filled according to the power line-up of 1947, with American troops and equipment. The withdrawal of British forces from Palestine and Greece would not bring British prestige crumbling down around...