Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army ordnance and is secret. But its future uses in the metal industries and in medicine are legion. The design includes some 180 sections, to provide constant accelerating steps of 12,000 volts each. The tube is completely sealed-off, like an ordinary radio tube, needs no pumping to maintain the high vacuum. It is compact, portable so that it can be used to in spect the insides of machinery installed anywhere. In therapeutic use its advantage is that of radium over ordinary X rays: its rays are so penetrating that they can destroy internal cancers without harmful effect...
...wanted rigid controls, for many years to come, but they wanted Germany, for centuries the economic center of Middle Europe, put back on its economic feet. They only wanted to make sure that German development is not along military lines. Both emphatically agreed that they "did not want to maintain a nation of haters...
Palmer says that the main issue of the presidential campaign this fall is foreign policy, and that therefore, "despite the fact that Dowey would make a capable administrator, I think it is important to maintain the present administration. Not because Roosevelt and Hull are 'indispensable', but because I believe they have a decidedly more genuine internationalistic policy. I feel quite certain that the recent espousals of international cooperation by Dewey and Bricker are nothing more than political opportunism, nor do I think that either are profoundly attached to the principle of a cooperative world organization...
...Force worked hard and bloodily to maintain the legend, pasted their divisional stickers on the bodies of Germans they knifed and on enemy equipment they disabled. When Allied forces broke out from the beachhead, the Force spearheaded the attack, led by Robert Frederick wearing a bandage around a neck wound...
...still untouched was: What now makes military sense? In the world of Blitzkrieg, the U.S. might lose a war before it had time to train a civilian army and build its elaborate, modern weapons. The U.S. might also lose a war if it established peacetime conscription but failed to maintain a keen professional air force...