Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lest there be any misunderstanding, a Humphrey-Muskie Administration will resist outright military aggression. We will honor our treaty commitments. We will maintain an adequate and balanced defense--capable of protecting our security and maintaining the peace...
...Health discovered that the brain's control of the pituitary gland was a major factor in the sudden aging of the salmon. As the fish enters fresh water, he found, the pituitary quickly grows to more than twice its normal size, and the central nervous system fails to maintain control. The gland then triggers a metabolic speedup that burns away practically all of the fat in the salmon's body. Biochemist Andrew Benson, associate director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, explains: "It is as though all the glands were programmed to cause the combustion of fat simultaneously...
Still others maintain that the U.S. would do well to recall how it reacted during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had sent two messages to John F. Kennedy, one truculent, the other conciliatory. At the urging of his brother Robert, President Kennedy decided to ignore the first and reply to the second, and a settlement swiftly followed (see THE PRESS...
...Viet Nam war. "Whatever military reasons he and others could marshal," he recalls, "they were nevertheless, in the last analysis, advocating a surprise attack by a very large nation against a very small one. This, I said, could not be undertaken by the U.S. if we were to maintain our moral position at home and around the globe. Our struggle against Communism throughout the world was far more than physical survival-it has as its essence our heritage and our ideals, and these we must not destroy...
...demonstrators planned to maintain the barricades peacefully, and gather together in a room when the police broke in. They voted to stand and defend themselves, but not be provocative, the source said...