Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come across a commentary on contemporary painting by a magazine that is neither cowed nor won over by the flood of inanity, fantasy and "uglification" now so widely acclaimed as art of importance and value. Your critic appears to be one of the few reviewers who have managed to maintain a sense of balance between experiment and accomplishment, between painting as a manifestation of skill, taste esthetic and plastic achievement as opposed to the accidental drippings, smearings anc daubings of the abstract expressionists...
...plans, which will be completed in two or three months, will keynote a drive for funds to finance the project. Although sailing is sponsored by the H.A.A., the club must provide the funds and endowment necessary to build and maintain the boathouse...
...eventually accept a foreign policy dictated from Washington. Already, arguments to this effect have boomerang: some Congressmen now cite unchanged neutralist foreign policies as proof that U.S. aid is valueless to this country. Mr. Dulles put the counter argument well: "Our interest will be fully served if other nations maintain their independence and strengthen their free institutions. We have no further aims than these...
...antilabor state law forbidding restraint of trade, a grand jury voted indictment of 115 of the city's Negro leaders-including a score of Negro ministers. "In this state," the indictment read, "we are committed to segregation by custom and by law; we intend to maintain it." Arrested on George Washington's birthday, one of the Negro ministers responded: "The Negroes are not on trial here, but Montgomery is on trial. The eyes of the world are focused here...
Range and change have brought the Air Force a whole set of new problems, e.g., the low (11%) re-enlistment rate of desperately needed technicians (some of the F-100s, without enough trained men to maintain them, have been grounded ). But the new Air Force, in all its flux, is nonetheless sustained by a stable strength. In its short ten years of existence as a separate branch of the armed services, it has acquired tradition, theory, individuality, discipline and a high sense of mission-all while being constantly at work to meet the threat that the U.S. has never known...