Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would still be unwilling to support the war if we felt that a Vietnamese Communist government could maintain any semblance of independence. But we do not see how a Vietnamese Communist government could stay free of a declaredly expansionist China. Could it hope to protect the "rice bowl" of South Vietnam against a country which recently had to spend millions of dollars buying "Canadian wheat? China has marched it army to the borders of a country as well-befriended as India. Sihanouk, whose country has no border with China, fears its domination. Marshal Lin Pao's recent manifesto unabashedly admits...
...matter of grave concern that the international community no longer shares this high regard. Gone are the days when Tolstoy's Russian aristocrats conversed and the Congress of Vienna convened-in French. Today France is waging a discreet campaign to reinstate-or, as one exhortation puts it, "maintain"-la langue française as an international tongue...
...student doesn't maintain a C average, a spokesman for the Arkansas state headquarters said yesterday, "we'll pull him in at the end of the semester." Boards in Utah and Oklahoma have also begun selectively reclassifying students who fall to maintain a C average or better...
...Irish maintain that their own Saint Brendan the Navigator got here 300 years before Columbus. And though Jewish organizations did not enter the scramble last week, Pennsylvania State Representative Herbert Fineman solemnly averred that Ericsson's trusty navigator was named Eric Mandelbaum. Peking was strangely silent considering the Red brag that a band of Chinese monks traveled from the Aleutians to Mexico back...
...bank branches overseas. The Communist bank has since closed all but its three largest overseas offices. The Nationalists, before leaving the mainland, copied all the bank's records and shipped them to Hong Kong, also transferred bank funds to safekeeping in New York. They have managed to maintain eight branches abroad...