Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against the abuse of freedom. Nevertheless, it is the peculiar task of Harvard and every other university and college in this country to foster and maintain not only freedom within its own walls, but also tolerance, self-restraint, main dealing, and devotion to the truth throughout America...
Offspring of the illegal slot machine, pinball is big business now, although production of new machines was frozen by the War Production Board in May, 1942. Shopkeepers receive approximately half of the take, and the rest goes to the operators, who maintain the machines...
...wider horizons. At the bottom of every ballot in every town was a searching question: "To see if the town will vote to support United States membership in a general system of international cooperation, such as that proposed at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, having police power to maintain the peace of the world...
...canny pronouncement: "Should it fall to me, as it may do, to form a Government before elections, I shall seek aid not only of Conservatives, but of men of good will of any party or of no party." In other words, he would invite Labor and the Liberals to maintain the wartime coalition until the elections. Since both Parties have already agreed to secede from the Government on Germany's fall, they will be weakened if they accept, or be accused of self-interest if they refuse...
Willingness to kill in defense of one's family, maintained its position of second "favorite" motive, showing that in spite of the psychological pressure on students caused by the war, the instinct to maintain the safety of oneself and one's family remain as the strongest potential actives for killing...