Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dawson said the State Committee, which had refused HEC applications three times previously, relented this summer because "it is granting charters to nearly everybody who asks for one between now and November in an effort to maintain party unity until the election...
Because Tanganyika's 95,000 Asians and Arabs and its 25,000 Europeans (chiefly British and Greek) comprise only 1.5% of the territory's population of 8,800,000, the British wisely made no attempt to maintain absolute white supremacy as European settlers had tried to do in neighboring Kenya and the Central African Federation. Instead, in a bid for racial harmony, the British allotted each constituency three council seats, one for each of the three major racial groups -Asian, European and African. Every voter, regardless of his color, voted for his choice in all three seats...
...final race, the light-weights had to win four other races, almost all of them difficult, against some of the best American and English crews who didn't have to maintain a 150-pound average...
...liang, for one, has run the Shanghai diocese since the jailing of Shanghai's Bishop Kung Pinmei in 1955, goes about dressed in full bishop's regalia, including mitre. Ho's most recent refinement is to force valid bishops to consecrate Communist bishops, thereby attempting to maintain Roman Catholic validity. With liturgically correct bootleg rites, he has created ten "progressive" bishops, is planning consecrations for Nanking, Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint new bishops for Canton and Shanghai. When Bishop Li Tao-nan of Puichi was first ordered to consecrate bishops, he refused. But after two weeks...
...crack at Australian Stars Lorraine Crapp, Dawn Fraser and lisa Konrads. Beginning this fall, Chris will get up every weekday at 5:30 a.m., get to the pool by 7 for a go-minute workout, return for two more hours after school. Evenings, she will concentrate on homework to maintain her straight-A average at Los Gatos High School in the hope of entering Stanford...