Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further states that "it is clearly in the best interests of the national Democratic Party to retain Mr. Butler's services as National Chairman...
...varsity, however, will have a definite struggle even to retain its share in last years' three way tie for second place with Army and Dartmouth. Though the varsity keeps its status quo, and most likely is a better team than last year, the rest of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming league (the eight Ivy schools plus Army and Navy) has improved more than the Crimson...
...last three years there has been only one real change in the situation. Britain has decided she doesn't need the island so desperately after all, and now seems willing to give considerable ground toward effecting a compromise solution. She must retain control of her all-important military installations, but apparently can dispense with the rest of Cyprus. This change in attitude came a bit too late, however; for in drawing Turkey into the mess, Britain had added a force fully as intransigent as she herself was before...
...self-im-provement, literature, liquor, athletics, or discussion. While they are public to the extent that the names of new members appear in the paper every year, they are secret in that no one ever reveals what goes on inside. Some have no windows. Others have many exits. Many retain mystical ceremonies and most have strange customs. Skull and Bones, for example, has the tradition that every member must leave the room when an outsider says the name of their society. This has led to numerous jokes, such as the hiring of a gang of bums...
...only did the Democrats retain all their present Senate seats, but they added enough new ones to insure control of the Senate through at least 1962. Perhaps the most significant factor about the Democratic victory was that the farmers gave the Democrats more votes that at any time since Roosevelt...