Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems-of crime and law enforcement had been set in ways that have endured to the present. The community had ceased to be self-regulating and had turned over more and more functions once performed by families and neighbors to policemen, wardens, penitentiaries, almshouses and asylums. The police could maintain order-the mob was no longer tolerated-but they could not prevent crime; they could enforce laws, but not unpopular ones; criminals might fear prison, but they were not reformed by it. With immigration approaching flood levels, the normal disputes over the nature of public order and the sources...
...private government. For a long time, and to our great disadvantage, we clung to the myth that there was a bureaucratic or governmental alternative to familial and communal virtue, that what parents, neighbors, and friends had failed to do, patrolmen, wardens, counselors and psychiatrists could provide. We struggled to maintain the hope that the police and schools could prevent crime and that prisons and treatment programs could rehabilitate criminals...
...circular wire-mesh cage 8 ft. in diameter. Bale and his wife Jeanette give the cage a mighty push. As it begins to turn, Bale hops inside, then makes like a hamster in an exercise wheel. As the cage rises, he runs up the inside to help maintain speed. When it reaches the top, Bale backpedals frantically to slow the whooshing descent, reversing again at the bottom to propel himself around the loop once more...
...double Ferris wheel he saw in a carnival and the cage toy his son has for his pet hamster. As for his safety, Bale eschews nets but never forgets a cardinal rule: "If you start taking things for granted, you get hurt. It's dangerous not to maintain an edge of fear...
...FIRST GENERATION of East Europeans to come to America were innocents. Some arrived de-classed and displaced; others were energetic, vigorous, ambitious. Almost all of them were young and believed that they could maintain their personal vision of religious tradition and the cohesion of the Jewish community in the midst of American society. But the sheer facts of life on the East Side overwhelmed them. The interminable hours in the sweatshops, families crowded six to a room in the tenements, the growth of crime and near epidemics of dysentery, typhoid and tuberculosis, the "tailor's disease," seemed to reflect...