Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOTHER'S HOUSE. This splendid, moody film takes place in a penumbral pile of Victorian architecture in a London suburb, where seven orphaned children cover up the death of their mother and try to maintain their old life with a mixture of love of one another and fear of the outside world...
...frame. He had never gorged himself on marbled steaks and pie à la mode, and since 1959 had spartanized his diet to approximately that used in his own DietHeart Study. Dr. Page was a moderate social drinker. He smoked scarcely half a pack a day. He tried to maintain a reasonable level of exercise by using the stairs instead of the elevator every time he had to go up two flights or down three. He tried to find time for tennis, playing sedate doubles...
...fine instructor. Tigar's Magnus flatters, cajoles, and bullies his barnyards of ministers and then, like an ironic lemur, sits back to watch them do just what he intended all along. Tigar knows how to get the most out of Shaw's wit--he is quick enough to maintain a rapid exchange, yet patient enough to let the lines do the job by themselves when the situation calls...
...Milton Shapp that the merger itself would be detrimental. And it left untouched an ar rangement under which the Penn Central, if the ICC approves, would first lend $25 million to the beleaguered New Haven to keep it going; the Penn Central would ultimately acquire the New Haven and maintain its red-inked passenger and freight services...
Issacs, a consultant to the Planning Board, said that he wants to maintain the culture of the Virgin Islands against the rapid economic growth. "Unfortunately we're teaching the native population as many of our bad habits as we can," said Issacs. "When Cuba closed down, there was a redistribution of tourism which affected the Virgin Islands," he said, "but tourism is fickle and is not enough to establish a stable economy...