Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clark pointed to the historical examples of both the ancient Athenian and the modern Western European democracies, which "grew soft" and were consequently taken over by foreign dictators. America cannot afford to maintain this "complacency," he said...
...free enterprise and foe of Communism. "The government of Western Germany," blurted Nye, "is coming more and more under the same economic and financial influence which helped to create the Germany of Hitler." As for the Middle East: "We believe that it is absolutely nonsense to imagine you can maintain peace [there] without an arrangement to which Russia herself will be a contributor." He did not point out that this, in effect, is exactly Russia's own formula for bulling its way into the Middle East...
...survivors of the revolution maintain a grim sense of humor. "Have you heard that the new Hungarian calendar has only eleven months?" asks the first Hungarian. "Yes," replies the second. "Premier Kadar has eliminated October...
...runaround" is a phrase instantly recognizable to hundreds of thousands of frustrated U.S. householders-and so is the "they." "They," in the moment of supreme exasperation that coincides with the collapse of an electric dryer on washday, is the apparently easy going, unhurried individual who is striving manfully to maintain the plumbing in the nation's 28 million homes, the wrench-wielding mechanic who administers to the health of the nation's 50 million autos, its 15 million power lawnmowers, its 375 million electric appliances. "They" is the U.S. Repairman in all his disguises-the familiar Mr. Fixit...
...Roebuck recently exchanged a Dallas customer's TV set five times before both company and customer were satisfied. To eliminate a troublesome production error, Norge spent thousands of dollars changing the transmissions in 27,000 washing machines. Major companies have training schools to help servicemen repair their products, maintain parts depots around the country so repairmen will not hold up a job for want of a special kind...