Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rhodesian studying in the U.S. I do not see everything through TIME's eyes, but I think that your cover story on Rhodesia [Nov. 5] attempted to present both sides. The white man wants to stay in Africa, but he fears the capacity of his black brothers to maintain law and order. As this fear has sometimes been justified, it is little wonder that the Rhodesian government has no immediate plans for "one man, one vote...
Both bases put a tremendous strain on Britain's badly stretched economy: Aden costs $168 million a year to maintain, Singapore and Malaysia $630 million. Whitehall planners, currently preparing next February's defense review under the most stringent of cost-accounting standards, are confronted with a knotty dilemma. Britain must pare its projected 1970 defense costs from $6.7 billion to $5.6 billion; at the same time, the "ghastly blank" in the thin red line of defenses that will exist between Europe and Hong Kong must be filled if Britain is to meet her responsibilities in foreign policy...
...population of 55.6 million, dominate the rest of the land? The invariable answer: sort of. One way or another, ever since Nigeria gained its independence five years ago, the North has managed to hold on to the prime ministry, keep itself a sizable majority in the federal parliament and maintain its tenuous, if often disputed, control of other regions...
...Harvard to maintain its normal load of electricity, Murphy explained, a much more elaborate and expensive generator setup, costing $2 1/2 million, would be needed...
...most important, all of the characters in this film maintain two personalities: on-stage and off-stage. While Checco may be "Top Banana" under the lights, he's a silly fruitcake at home. Variety Lights does not get encumbered by moral judgements, but in later works the on-stage component changes into phoniness. Fellini does not permit his urbane heroes to relieve their egos by singing and dancing before an audience; rather, they must release their tensions destructively among their friends...