Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government considers as nefarious the exploitation of discontent. . . . The Government asks everyone to measure his words and actions. It would be bad to cultivate an atmosphere of doubt, criticism, grumbling ... to destroy the union that Government is trying its best to maintain. ..." (Cold silence from the Left...
...Weyland to cover it. Weyland did. For three weeks his aircraft kept some 30,000 Germans pinned down south of the Loire, while Patton drove on. The hopeless German commander finally surrendered. When he gave up his sword to a Ninth Army commander, says the report, he "asked, to maintain German honor, that General Weyland's aircraft, which had conquered his units, should fly over his men before they laid down their arms...
Henry Weber is a onetime Northwest logger, foreman in a Vancouver shipyard and, by his own account, a man "with a revolutionary mind." He belongs to the elderly, radical and minuscule Socialist Labor Party, which is against capitalism in any form. Holding that wars are fought to maintain capitalism, Socialist Laborites are against...
...facilities at its new Camp Edwards base. Several playing fields, an enclosed sports arena, a swimming pool, and 16 remedial gymnasiums are among the many features of the new plant. This base serves only casualties from the First Service Command. The Navy, the Marines, and the Army Air Corps maintain separate facilities for their wounded...
Mother Knows Worst. Investigation soon revealed that Mrs. Q was the dominant character and the root of the family troubles. She used her ulcer and her bad teeth to help maintain her rule. One of her favorite subjects was an older daughter, Laura, who had died at eight of a bad heart. Laura had been a paragon of beauty and intelligence and, in Mrs. Q's opinion, Catherine resembled her. Result: Catherine, whose intelligence was mediocre, overworked at school to get good marks, and developed imitative heart trouble. In contrast, Mrs. Q considered Agnes "dumb," the symbol...