Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...character because it is so closely entwined with a nation's history, psychology and destiny. Ever since Stone Age men began bartering with furs, and the ancient Lydians introduced metal money, practically every dominant civilization has risen to power partly through its ability to create and maintain a stable, widely valued currency. If money has not always bought happiness, it has often cured ignorance and illness, supported the arts and established productive cultures...
...main-force troops out of South Viet Nam into North Viet Nam and the Cambodian and Laotian sanctuaries. It is still not clear whether that withdrawal decision was tactical, to refit and regroup -as most U.S. military men believe - or whether it was political, to encourage and maintain the bombing halt...
...letter to Ford said that "no one at Harvard has the right to decide to maintain ROTC on campus in view of what ROTC-trained officers are doing in Vietnam and elsewhere." However, Kazin said that he thought the faculty would not vote to abolish ROTC...
Mailer in his account of the Miami and Chicago conventions makes use of a certain objectivity for literary purposes--he refers to himself in the third person. But this is more than a mere literary device--it is a matter of form, and necessary if he is to maintain an aesthetic distance from his material, and be able to describe his involvement and his feelings with the freedom that impersonality allows. This--when the substance is of permanent or universal interest--is, of course, what makes literature...
...murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King, has been swaddled in controversy since its beginning. The attack, for the most part, comes from black students complaining of white lecturers, white textbooks and white outlook. Defenders of the course are willing to concede the possibility of a misstep but maintain that it is at least a misstep in the right direction...