Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...existed in 1940, the Germans would have overrun it as easily as they overran Denmark. . . . Thus the only way for Britain to be of value to the U.S. is for her to continue with her large population and her great, enterprising industrial economy. And the only way she can maintain these is for her to have immense export markets for her goods, services and investments, as well as the means of access to them-shipping and airlines...
...World Order? "I have emphasized, as my opponent has not, that, and I am quoting, 'We must make certain that our participation in the world organization is not subjected to reservations that would nullify the power of that organization to maintain peace and to halt future aggressions...
...officers muscled out Provisional President Andres Ignacio Menendez, under whom the 1,704,497 Salvadorans had enjoyed five months of wildly free speech and press. They had reinstated the country's Constitution of 1886, which acknowledges the right to insurrection. Colonel Aguirre suspended the Constitution, proceeded to "maintain order." Hundreds were jailed. With a friendly word toward neighboring Dictator Tiburcio Carias of Honduras, Colonel Aguirre raided the headquarters of the Honduran revolutionaries in San Salvador's Nuevo Mundo Hotel. The arresting officers were so rough with the Honduran leaders they caught that the other exiles hastily fled back...
Tropical diseases and heat took a heavy toll. Rain turned roads and storage dumps into bogs. But in five months, with 16,000 men working eight-hour shifts around the clock seven days a week, they built a base to supply, repair and maintain a naval fleet on the southern flank of the Japanese Empire...
Greece, free of the Germans, was rapidly occupied by the British. Athens and its port of Piraeus were entered by British troops after the Greek flag was hoisted by patriot fighters. The British aim was to: 1) prevent internecine war between left and right; 2) maintain Britain's influence in a traditionally close Mediterranean country; 3) provide food, clothing, medicine...