Word: retains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guinea, remote, mysterious General MacArthur managed to retain complete privacy where even Australian and U.S. nurses had to glance aside lest they blush at the spectacle of grimy soldiers bathing in the nude under roadside showers. One U.S. soldier, seeing the General one morning before breakfast, ran back to his comrades, exclaimed: "He was under the trees in a pink silk dressing gown with a black dragon on the back...
...hours one afternoon last week the U.S. Senate chamber reflected the feeling and temper of pre-Pearl Harbor times. Three Senators, all onetime die-hard isolationists, rose to lambaste the bill drafting 18-& 19-year-olds. They wanted to retain the clause, opposed by the Army and thrown out by a joint conference committee, requiring a year of training in the U.S. for every teen-age soldier before being sent to combat duty overseas...
...Reflectors for searchlights, headlights, etc. made with indium alloys are not quite as bright as those made with silver and certain other materials, but they retain a uniform value for much longer periods...
...earlier. Almost impersonally he began: "This Congress is going to be judged by what we do today, as to whether we have preserved our trust-as to what we do to protect America today. We should vote with vision and courage. If we lose this war, we do not retain our country, the country we all love...
...right and power to make and preserve the private fortune must be jealously guarded. . . . The body politic cannot flourish unless people are not only allowed but encouraged to accumulate and retain private wealth...