Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trustman, who divorced his first wife and remarried, believes that the "passive acceptance of women's roles then was devastating. All of a sudden, a woman was supposed to maintain a house and a social life, bear and raise children and preserve herself as an attractive female for the rest of her life, to the exclusion of everything else. It was the source of suicidal depressions and huge explosions" among many of the couples Trustman knows...
Danny Kaye, L.H.D., entertainer. He helped us to maintain our psychic balance through some of our most anxiety-ridden decades...
...Arabs in the occupied territories-but perhaps particularly for the 650,000 Palestinians on the West Bank-the decade since the '67 war has been a time of frustration, humiliation and resentment. Israeli troops still maintain law-and-order-often with brusque insensitivity-in their 2,270-sq.-mi. homeland of rolling hills and desert...
...I.C.M., suggesting the possibility of his playing a latter-day Rhett Butler. Though Josephson is often seen watering his clients at the Beverly Hills Hotel Polo Lounge, he shuns Hollywood glitter and lives quietly in a Manhattan penthouse with his second wife. He strenuously avoids personal publicity, preferring to maintain the I.C.M. image of dignity and professionalism. Says longtime client Harry Reasoner of ABC: "He's concerned about your progress, but he knows when to tell you to shut...
...test and has been weighed submerged in water to determine what proportion of his body weight is fat. Runners punch their times into a computer and receive their points. At the end of each month they get a printout of their progress. Thirty points a week, says Cooper, will maintain condition. Some overachievers earn...