Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting priest called it highway robbery, pointing to President Eliot's promise way back in 1903 to maintain the building forever. He says that pulled every influential string he could get his hands on, and that the administration acquiesced...
This was the Semitic Museum's second official opening. And if the squat brick building had its own voice, it might well ask why the University failed to honor the promise it made in 1903 to maintain the museum as a scholarly and public institution. The answers would be neither happy nor simple...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff as they design "targeting options" and President Reagan as he seeks to make credible the longstanding American threat of using nuclear weapons first to retaliate against a Soviet tank attack on Western Europe. But those uncertainties also complicate the arguments of people like Schell, who maintain that nuclear weaponry, because it threatens total destruction, is devoid of military or political utility. Whether one believes that nuclear arsenals constitute an indispensable part of our national defense or that they constitute the ultimate threat to our survival, the fact remains that nobody knows what would happen...
...driven off course by what he called "a sore storme" and found haven "among certaine isles never before discovered." Two years later, another Briton, Sir Richard Hawkins, proclaimed the islands "Hawkins' Maiden-land" in honor of Queen Elizabeth I and "in a perpetual memory of her chastitie." Some maintain, however, that Magellan's expedition first sighted the islands in 1520. Others speculate that the discoverer was an anonymous Viking, or even a roving Fijian or Chinese...
Johnson's sneers proved prophetic. Although British diplomats won Spain's permission to maintain a settlement in the Falklands, London was preoccupied with the rebellion in its North American colonies and abandoned Port Egmont in 1774 as "uneconomical." In departing, though, the British commander nailed up a lead plaque that said: "Be it known to all nations that Falkland's Islands. . . are the sole property of His Most Sacred Majesty, George the Third, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland...