Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great things of NATO," said Eisenhower, "is to make us all feel we are part and parcel of the same defensive security problem . . . When you know someone is with you . . . you have got a strength that is very hard to defeat." Dulles was sure that the free world would maintain its unity in the face of Soviet change. "Unity has to be carefully differentiated from conformity. That is the difference between our system and the Communist system ... We tolerate and welcome differences of opinion . . . Goodness knows, we don't want any satellites." When free world countries get into disputes...
...doctor to relax in the least degree his efforts to maintain life means that the question of when to stop fighting will arise to plague him every time he undertakes the care of an incurable cancer patient ... Where can anyone, no matter how wise, draw the line?" There is always the chance that "spontaneous remission," a rare inexplicable halt to tumor growth, may restore the cancer patient to health. Moreover, says Cameron, the possibility always exists of a timely cure for the patient's case of cancer. "The humane course is to hold on to such a hope, slender...
...present global dilemma is dependent on the workings of the democratic process in America and elsewhere, we must despair of it. The inherent characteristics of democratic government, they insist, make it impossible for nations so governed to choose the hard course. Those in power, in order to maintain their positions, must continuously cater to the domestic interests and whims of a fragile and shifting numerical majority. Inevitably these interests, even in critical periods such as this, will reflect. short-term needs and desires which cannot be adjusted responhibly to long-term objectives...
...economic and political concerns abroad. There may also be resistance from some people of old American stock and of moderate means whose sense of economic and social security has been challenged by the rise of vigorous newcomers whose families came more recently from Europe; similarly, from those who maintain unreasoning resistance to the ideal of equal rights for all, regardless of race or color...
Sutherland and Charles Fairman, professor of Law, were members of the original committee that compiled both books. In January 1955, shortly before the bibliography was completed, Sutherland had warned that it would have to be updated periodically to maintain its value as a reference volume...