Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would feel if we had been in here first and you came in and immediately raised the food level. It would seem like a deliberate slap in the face. For that reason, I intend to do it gradually." Ever since then, Clark has hammered away at the Russians to maintain decent rations...
...whole trouble seems to me to be that the Allies want, on the one hand, to enforce with the utmost strictness the terms of the Versailles Treaty, and, on the other hand, want to maintain Germany in a condition where she can be a military bulwark against Russian Bolshevism. These two attitudes cannot be reconciled except by the exercise of the most farseeing statesmanship; and I doubt whether the men who are now directing the affairs of Europe are farseeing statesmen...
...Frank J. Taylor, chief spokesman for the owners, maintain that cutting hours of ship's crews meant more men and more living quarters at the expense of revenue-bearing cargo? Bridges recalled-his Australian voice dripping with wide-eyed vowels-that merchant ships carried 30-man gun crews during the war and facilities for them were still in the ships...
...time & again had stated its intention to maintain a strong merchant marine as "an arm of international policy." The U.S. had also stated its intention of getting the ships back in private hands. Said Vice Admiral William Ward Smith, recently appointed head of the Maritime Commission: "We will give the operators every help and encouragement." How much help would that...
...From 1848 to 1867 the U.S. maintained a complete legation at the Vatican, discontinued it at the approaching collapse of the temporal power (which was restored by the Lateran treaty of 1929). France, which also separates church & state, and England, with a Protestant state church, both maintain diplomatic relations with the Pontiff...