Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invisible Ink. Last week the strangers in parked cars proved to be FBI men. They arrested the man with the satchel. Carl Emil Ludwig Krepper, as a Nazi agent. They charged that 1) he had agreed to maintain a refuge for Nazi saboteurs in the U.S.; 2) he had sent a code letter to Germany, and received back two letters in code from his wife, Bertha, who is still in Germany...
...Eden restated the Government's case in firm, friendly tones: Britain had gone into Greece with prior U.S. and Russian approval. It sought no economic or strategic advantage for itself, although it was true that Britain had an interest in the Mediterranean. Added Eden: "Our aim is to maintain law & order, to establish a Greek Government broadly representative of all opinion in Greece, including EAM. . . . The first task of the Government will be to get relief going and food for the people. The second task will be to organize free and fair elections...
...crusader from birth, the magazine has been in the thick of the hurly-burly of U.S. invention. Through its Manhattan editorial office trooped Morse, Gatling, the Maxim brothers, Edison, many another great inventor. Scientific American used to maintain a patent advice agency which, besides giving the magazine many a news scoop, presided benevolently over inventors, encouraging the sincere, diligently exposing the fakers. (Typical case: a "perpetual motion" machine which baffled everybody until Scientific American's editors X-rayed it, discovered inside a clocklike apparatus which could be wound by key through a simulated worm-hole...
Retorted Mr. Cooper: "If the Economist is speaking for Britain in wanting to maintain ... its effective control over vast world communications, a thing that Reuters [British news agency] . . . does not itself demand, then perhaps more than ever the issue . . . should be fought out even in advance of the peace...
...week's end the Communist ex-ministers beat a tactical retreat, told their followers: "Personal arms must be surrendered. . . . The Resistance must do everything in its power to maintain order . . . avoid any conflict with Allied armies." But 15,000 Belgians with Hammer-&-Sickle flags marched through Brussels streets and continued to shout: "A bas Pierlot!" (Down with Pierlot...