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 hide 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...
Another visiting Asian statesman, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, called for U.S. "patience, perseverance and prudence" in an effort that is designed, "in a world full of bears and dragons," to help the nations of Southeast Asia maintain their independence. If the U.S. were to withdraw too hastily from Viet Nam, he warned, internal subversion with outside support would quickly run Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore through the Communist "mincing machine." The President assured Lee that the U.S. "has the resolution and the restraint to see the struggle through." He added: "You have a phrase in your part...
...fifth largest port city in the world. Though plagued by severe unemployment and racial problems, it still has the highest standard of living in Southeast Asia. The tiny country with a predominantly Chinese population is walled in by four Muslim nations. And co Lee must try to maintain Singapore's delicate relations with Malaysia, increase Singapore's trade with both Eastern and Western powers, and prevent a new wave of Communist uprisings in neighboring Southeast Asian nations...
...prime minister believes, the United States owes it to the Thais in particular and Southeast Asia in general to maintain a "military shield" behind which South Vietnam can build industrially...
...principle should guide the deliberations: no student who now lives off-campus or wishes to do so should be forced to live in a House. So long as students are free to leave, the Houses will have an incentive to maintain themselves as the pleasant, genial dwellings they are generally known to be. As President Lowell wrote several decades ago, to permit students to rent apartments "has been thought wiser than to attach to the Houses any sense of compulsion or to make residence there other than a privilege...