Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suffered at least 15,000 dead in the area." General Giap may well have been glad to see the men of Pegasus approaching Khe Sanh. Pegasus not only relieved the Marines of Khe Sanh; it also relieved the Communists of a siege that they could no longer profitably maintain...
...final judge of who can rightly be considered a Christian. Austrian Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner, for example, suggests that there is today "an invisible Christianity which does indeed possess the justification of sanctifying grace from God. A man belonging to this invisible Christianity may deny his Christianity or maintain that he does not know whether he is a Christian or not. Yet God may have chosen him in grace." Similarly, the late Protestant theologian Paul Tillich contrasted the "manifest church" of confessed believers with what he called the "latent church," whose membership included all men engaged with the ultimate realities...
Rose and Hyman make more lyrical music together than the score does. Still, such songs as Loving You and The Day I Met Your Father maintain the tone of tenderness that gives the evening its underlying harmony. The dances are robust rather than stylish; after working 14-hour days and attending night school, those old immigrants exhibit an improbable excess of energy. But that, of course, is the sweet errantry of nostalgia that gives this gentle musical its appeal...
DeFord is treated at a city clinic, then rents a cheap room just off the Bowery, where he plans to wait until the doctors tell him he can go home. He is surrounded by winos, hoods and drug pushers, but he manages to maintain his integrity. Amidst defeat and depravity, he nurtures his memories of the country's reach and grandeur, of the days he spent hunting and fishing, and of his pride in earning his living with his hands. It is Author Shetzline's singular achievement that he keeps DeFord and his memories uncorrupted...
...major Hollywood production centers are purring with some 150 feature films scheduled for 1968. Budgets are bigger than ever, now that the vast conglomerate industries have moved in and allowed the studios to enjoy gelt by association. To maintain a liaison be tween the new financiers and the new film makers, studios are turning to the new executives. Cool, crisp as a bank note, three such men, none of them yet 40, are already the masters of production at some of the nation's biggest and best-known studios...