Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life and times America cannot afford to dispense with the technical knowledge and brilliant accomplishments of the Hyman Rickovers. If special action is needed to retain and utilize the very great capabilities of this man, for us all, then we ask the naval department to take that action...
Japan, fed up with six years of bowing before the occupiers, was also sensitive. The Japanese public applauded the sentence. The newspaper Yomiuri warned: "We hope the Japanese government, whose weak-kneed diplomacy was criticized in connection with the U.S. . . . agreement, will retain to the last their firm stand in the U.N. forces agreement...
...independent role in the campaign.. Committee leaders argued that independent voters and disgruntled Democrats would not be attracted to the regular party organization. The citizens and the pros reached a compromise: the national committee will have the right to coordinate all activities, but the Citizens Committee will retain its separate identity...
...super-Peronista governor of Buenos Aires province, fired an employee who refused to wear a black tie. A Buenos Aires youth was arrested for laughing on a streetcar. "Attitudes like this are antisocial," said Aloé. ¶ Eva's political cronies in high office, who stand to retain power if they can keep her memory alive, formed an "Association of Friends of Eva Perón" and asked, "What would Christ have been without his disciples?" (Eva's disciples, presumably, will be wanting to look after the more than $100 million which annually pours into her Social...
...University of Pennsylvania's 150-lb. crew by 1¼ lengths over Cambridge's Christ's College on a 1-mile-550-yd. course, to retain the Thames Challenge Cup; at Henley-on-Thames, England...