Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Confronted with the Hitler terror, Camus cried "What values did we have . . . which we could oppose to his negation? None." In The Plague (1947), a parable of the Resistance couched in terms of a city under sentence of bubonic death, Camus voiced his social ethic: "All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us . . . not to join forces with the pestilences." In The Rebel (1952), Camus turned to attack the pestilence of modern revolutionary ideologies: "Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police...
...there time?" asked Ebtehaj, echoing a major theme of the conference. "Is there time in which to effect these physical improvements in the standard of living, and yet to maintain the basic freedoms in which all of us here believe? We believe there is time−provided that our program in Iran responds to the spur of urgency. To such a spirit of urgency and decisiveness we are fully committed...
...money at the rate of $40 billion annually, $2 billion more than its $38 billion budget. To help get back in line, the Air Force proposed a temporary cut averaging 25% in its monthly progress payments for aircraft production. But the Air Force still expected the industry to maintain full delivery schedules, either by cutting costs or borrowing money to keep going. Last week the replies were in, and they added up to one loud, angry yelp. Said one planemaker: "If the Department of Defense were private industry, it could be adjudged guilty of mismanagement punishable...
...Harvard soccer team beat an aggressive Dartmouth squad 2 to 0 yesterday by playing the calibre of ball they could not maintain in Tuesday's loss to MIT. Except for five minutes of the first quarter when Harvard's defense suddenly slackened, the teams short passing attack sliced through Dartmouth for shot after shot to dominate the entire game in an exhibition of hard, excellent soccer...
...maintain leadership and preparedness, he emphasized, the United States must "turn to conventional weapons" for defense, prepare for "limited warfare," and abandon a popular belief, once advocated by General Mark Clark, that the U.S. should "shoot the works for victory...