Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went well until after World War II, when the blacks of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland-also founded by Rhodes-began to demand their freedom. The white populations of the two colonies, too badly outnumbered to maintain control, began calling for help. In British eyes, the only solution was to weld them into a federation with Southern Rhodesia, whose large white police force and greater degree of self-government might quell the cries for kwacha, or independence. It was a scheme worthy of Rhodes, but not even federation could stem the tide. It lasted exactly ten years...
After last Saturday, anyone who could maintain that sort of blissful confidence would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind...
Allen and Baker ran even all the way at a fast pace which Geisel and Allen Adrelni of Princeton couldn't maintain. Baker finally felt the pressure and lost 36 seconds in the last 200 yards, as Geisel moved up. Hewlett, despite the injury, kept an even, respectable pace until the last mile...
...protestors maintain, the demonstrations are meant to be more than an outlet for individual indignation, they are falling. Instead of mobilizing popular support-against U.S. policy and causing it to change, they are only stimulating a McCarthy-like witch hunt and alienating the vast majority of the American people...
...small bowel as a nonfunctioning blind loop. When the man recovered from the operation, he continued to overeat, but the food digested in his stomach and duodenum passed more directly into his colon. He absorbed enough protein and starch to keep him alive but not enough fat to maintain his weight...