Word: retains
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Cherished Monstrosity. Whichever boat the committee chooses will be a heavy favorite to retain the America's Cup against Gretel next month. Tradition is firmly with the U.S. In in years, the U.S. has never lost a match for the quaint Victorian monstrosity that cost 100 guineas (about $500) new and remains securely bolted to the bottom of a glass trophy case in the New York Yacht Club...
...movement to preserve Gaelic is connected with a general nationalistic revival which seeks to retain Ireland's cultural distinctiveness. Professor O'Neill explains that there is a tendency for every small country to have its individualism obliterated by the influence of more powerful countries around it and that Ireland is in danger of becoming completely Anglicized. If this happens, the Gaelic language will be virtually extinct. This will mean, among other things, the loss in the original Gaelic to the general reading public of all of Ireland's ancient literature, the oldest north of the Alps. The Irish...
...planes five times within ten days; Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko told U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk in Geneva that Moscow intends to sign a peace treaty with East Germany. But Gromyko set no deadline, and chances are that when Moscow does sign the treaty, the Russians will retain some control in Berlin, since (the State Department reckons) the Russians would scarcely want to hand East Germany's Walter Ulbricht the power to provoke incidents with the West that might lead to war. Rusk told Gromyko flatly that the U.S. did not care what treaties Russia signed with...
...basically, his politics are neither right nor left but as bouncy as a pingpong ball. His heart pings mightily when it comes to preserving the 27½% oil depletion allowance, so dear to the pocketbooks of oilmen, and it ponged in support of the President's campaign to retain foreign aid to Poland and Yugoslavia. But he has crossed Jack Kennedy 6ften in recent months, and in fact, has voted pro-Kennedy only 59% of the time. Still, some people regard him as an easy-money, easy-credit Democrat...
...most influential critic, and eventually he forced the acceptance of his ideas: the duty of the modern novelist was to be "true to the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the life of actual men and women"; such romanticists as Scott and Dickens were "dead corpses which retain their forms perfectly in the coffin, but crumble to dust as soon as exposed to air." Second Deadly Silas. Howells' novels were written in a prose that both friends such as Twain and detractors such as H. L. Mencken admitted to be superb; and they were written about subjects that...