Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus goes-and must go-the U.S.'s struggle to maintain the peace and security of the free world by maintaining the deterrent power on earth and in space through the late 19503 and 19603 into the 19705. "Our real problem," the President summed up in his State of the Union address last week, "is not our strength today; it is the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow...
...Each Atlas launching tests different components in the missile. Last week's flight was not for distance, but to make the first test of the small rocket engines on the side of the missile that 1) maintain speed while the missile cuts off its two take-off engines (after about 130 sec. in flight), leaving only the main sustaining engine; and 2) control direction and velocity of the missile...
White pointed out that the Library must grow if it is to maintain its position of leadership. "Growth means that the Library must deal with publications in increasingly obscure subjects and languages, that its catalogues must become increasingly complicated, and that even the relatively simple process of circulating books becomes more costly...
...complete. But there is much to be said for Arthur Kennedy as an unfortunate rapist ("I never had nuthin' I ever wanted"), and for Lloyd Nolan as the town doctor. Others involved are Russ Tamblyn as Miss Varsi's boy friend and Lee Philips as Miss Turner's. They maintain the film's standard without exceeding...
...Sullivans maintain that the area is, in its present function, not as useful to the city as it might be. They assert that a modern industrial center of about 60 acres might be built on the land which is now under water. That the water backed up as a result of piling operations might flood numerous cellars all along the Charles, or that the plan would eliminate one of the metropolitan area's most used and sightly parks, the Sullivans fail to mention...