Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political faction, a minority or an opposition and in war we need cooperation, even a coalition, of all parties. We ask: why will not Chiang take in the Communists as Roosevelt takes a few Republicans into his Cabinet? But there is a very considerable difference. We Republicans do not maintain a private army exercising arbitrary armed control over whole sections of the country because we do not like some New Deal policies. But the Communists do have a private army and a separate government. They are not just a political party. They are an armed rebellion...
...internal struggle would please practically everybody. But it seemed unlikely that Premier Soong, any more than Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, would compromise on the basic issue which has shattered all efforts at agreement between the Communists and the Chinese Government-Yenan's insistence that it be permitted to maintain an independent army...
...pure white one. Even among animals which can distinguish color, notably fish and birds, brilliant markings do not influence the female's choice of a mate. They serve primarily to intimidate other males. The barnyard turkey's puffing and strutting are intended to advertise his dominance, maintain his social position, defend his territory. The female turkey responds to bluff, not beauty...
When Hollywood bites off a chunk like this and fills in with technicolor, things usually get very heady and cloying; the British (take another look at "On Approval") maintain a carefree buoyancy which aims at entertainment instead on Academy Awards...
...Department announced that General Courtney Hodges' First Army was being redeployed to the Pacific by way of the U.S., keeping enough veteran units and personnel to maintain its battle record...