Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Local historians maintain that the town helped popularize the word "booze." The term was coined earlier but gained wide currency when a now-defunct Glassboro glassworks made cabin-shaped bottles for William Henry Harrison's 1840 log-cabin presidential campaign. The contents were supplied by a Philadelphia distiller named E. C. Booz...
Property was the least of the problems. Indeed, sooner or later, Israel's newly bloated borders may undergo drastic shrinkage by negotiation. There is no great urge, for example, to stay in the empty wastes of the Sinai Desert. And rather than maintain a garrison at Sharm el Sheikh, Israel would prefer to see that distant outpost demilitarized and put under international control...
...army in the Sinai seems to have melted away into the Arab communities of the peninsula. There are also the restive Gaza refugees, who emerged as a commando army during the fighting and afterward slipped quietly back into their Casbah-like warrens of tinroofed shacks. To maintain order, Israel has had to keep about 80% of its 230,000 army reservists in uniform...
...South Viet Nam's 13,000 hamlets have been successfully and permanently secured, and General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. armed forces chief in South Viet Nam, plans to expand his search-and-destroy operations into search-destroy-and-hold operations. The change, he figures, will help maintain security over liberated villages and give the now-foundering pacification program new hope...
...teas, cocktail parties, receptions and dinners for delegates and their wives-and the traditional gourmet stag lunch at Basel's venerable Schützenhaus restaurant. "The B.I.S.," says Economist Robert Triffin, Yale's famed international monetary expert, "is partly a country club and partly a church-to maintain the dogma of central-bank independence from governments...