Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laotian troops trying to maintain a semblance of sovereignty over their own territory also hit tough resistance when they pushed toward the trail around Thakhek and Savannakhet. Last month Royal Laotian T-28s trapped a company of mixed Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese troops in the open near Thakhek, killing dozens of the "Laoviet" with their 500-lb. bombs, while ground forces pinned another 40 in a nearby cave. Last week 14 of the North Vietnamese prisoners were on display in Vientiane...
...deposed Imam Badr are backed by arms and money from Saudi Arabia and Britain. In September after the war turned into a stalemate, Saudi Arabian King Feisal and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser negotiated an uneasy ceasefire. Nasser's expeditionary force costs $500,000 a day to maintain; both he and Feisal seem more eager than the Yemenis for a firmer peace...
...less), and it requires exquisite teamwork between the cowpoke and his mount (Will Rogers once remarked that a good roper owes 75% of his success to his horse). Rodeo ropers pay as much as $5,000 for a quarterhorse, and most of them-like matadors-maintain practice rings of their own, where they train their mounts for months to anticipate each move of a zigzagging calf, to stop instantly ("sticking 'em into the ground," in rodeo talk) at the precise moment the lariat settles around the Brangus' neck...
Heard argues that "the most pervasive aspiration of our time is for greater human freedom," insists that a university must "maintain an open forum" and defend the academic freedom of both faculty and students. He also stresses service to nearby Negro colleges: Vanderbilt now has faculty-exchange programs with Nashville's Fisk University and the cross-town Meharry Medical School, one of the South's main sources of Negro doctors...
Civil War or not, Taney held that it was the duty of the court to maintain "with an even and firm hand the rights and powers of the Federal Government, and of the States, and of the citizens, as they are written in the Constitution ..." In a series of unpopular decisions, he held that the President alone did not have the power to order the seizure of ships trading with Confederate ports; he ordered the federal provost marshal to pay damages and costs for merchandise which had been confiscated because it was bound for Virginia. He outraged the Administration...