Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Rock, Faubus told a news conference he had given the President "unequivocal assurances to maintain order" but made no direct reply to Eisenhower's remarks...
...transport them there. The latter is made more difficult by the fact that transportation facilities have continually been cut in order to keep bomber and missile programs untouched. The former would require not only a sixth sense and an unparalleled intelligence agency, but also the manpower to maintain whatever weapons are to be kept on hand in potential trouble areas...
...overemphasized, for either humanitarian or security reasons. If the national leaders of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America are not successful in leading their people into the twentieth century they will be replaced, and in all probability by more extreme and opportunistic leaders. To maintain domestic rule, uneasy leaders may resort to more extreme external adventures...
...such names as Zondi, Moroka and Shantytown-from which some 94,000 native workers stream each day into Johannesburg to work for the white man-Basutos, Bechuanas, Xhosas and Zulus live more or less segregated from one another under a government policy designed to preserve tribal instincts and to maintain the fiction that all native labor is transient and will some day return to the bush...
...Durant portrays the manifold consequences of Luther's revolt. Every man might now be his own theologian; every state (if it had the power) might withhold its allegiance to Rome. The tortures and burnings of heretics on both sides became part of each nation's struggle to maintain its chosen order. Britain's Henry VIII, for example, quarreled with Papists as well as Protestants when he deemed them a menace to his royal law and order, was apt to burn both on the same day. Luther condemned radical sectarians-Zwinglians, Anabaptists, peasant-reformers-with righteous enthusiasm...