Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raven had been found brutally murdered, his head severed from his body. When the ravens leave the Tower, says an old legend, Britain's majesty will topple. As it searched in vain for MacDonald's murderer, Scotland Yard suspected the worst. Another raven was hastily imported to maintain the garrison, and an extra guard of six troops thrown about the remaining ravens. Solemnly and in full state the Tower Beef-Eaters buried MacDonald near the moat...
...Sash Me Father Wore." TIME'S correspondent last week attributed the relative quiet of the celebration to "the desire of the Ulster Government to maintain the status quo, and to the shortage of whiskey." July 12, 1947 in Belfast was not entirely dry, however. As the parade made the turn by the block-long Arcadia Bar, many marchers took a short cut and a pint of Guinness, and joined the parade again as it stomped along singing The Sash Me Father Wore (which was orange, of course...
...would not get the drop in food and clothing prices which had been expected in the fall, there was some debate. Typical was the argument over meat. The Department of Agriculture feared that corn would be at least 200,000,000 bu. too short-and too expensive-to maintain meat production at present levels. On the other hand, the American Meat Institute saw "no drastic effect on meat supplies or prices." Nevertheless, top grade beef in Chicago rose to $30.50 a cwt., highest since last January. Not till all the crops were in would the consumer know how things would...
...year ago Old 81st's ruler-straight back began to sag, his legs swelled with arthritis. He got so weak and lame that his handlers, anxious to maintain his invaluable services, adopted a strategy that beefmen rarely use. By artificial insemination, Old 81st got 190 more cows with calf before, wasted by pain, he was finally put to death last week...
Filling Cunningham's spot will probably be the toughest. The rest of the boat conquers of falls on the pace that its stroke can set and maintain for them. Of course, as in any team sport, that isn't the whole story; but situations may arise, as they did in the four-mile regatta with Yale, that the stroke must carry the shell when his mates are having trouble. In that particular back-breaker, too little pre-race warmup caused physical complications about half-way through among the men behind Cunningham, who practically bore the weight of the speeding shell...