Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governors of South Carolina." Then it put" its finger squarely on the basic weakness of third-party talk: regardless of how strong the South may feel about civil rights, it "cannot go it alone, because only within the framework of the two-party system is it able to maintain enough political power in the Congress to protect its interests [through seniority on powerful House and Senate committees, etc.]. The third party led by J. Strom Thurmond-also of South Carolina-in 1948 should have taught us a lesson . . . Such movements could leave the section politically powerless, with all that this...
...West German Plant Conservation Service at Kiel and the Soviet zone's Central Biological Office together maintain irrigation works that straddle the border, wage joint war against animal epidemics and that old enemy of German agriculture, the potato...
Peace-and U.N. prestige-took a beating at a Security Council meeting last week. To thank Dag Hammarskjold for pulling Israel and the Arabs apart two months ago, and to maintain the momentum for peace built up by his Palestine mission, the British had cooked up a well intentioned resolution. To make it speak for East as well as West, Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon tossed in a phrase from a Russian Foreign Ministry Office pronouncement of last April expressing hope for a peaceful settlement "on a mutually acceptable basis." Obviously it was a line the Soviets thought well...
...separated from common hydrogen. They will become highly radioactive because of neutrons released within them, but unlike atomic fission reactors they will not contain large amounts of dangerous radioactive material that might be scattered by an accident. On the other hand, they will probably be harder to operate and maintain...
School systems complying with the Supreme Court decision can still maintain de facto, if not legal, segregation. The decision, it must be remembered, did not require integration; it merely condemned compulsory segration...