Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that demand maturity, before they are fully prepared. Many couples, as well as many individuals, have met with major or minor misfortunes from beginning too young, and one of the worst consequences of these new social forces is that, just as there once was pressure on young people to retain their virginity until they got married, now there is pressure on them to possess experience, at whatever cost...
...brought no food riots or demonstrations against the ravages of the war. Far from being disheartened by the deteriorating course of the war, German workers kept the war machine supplied right up to the end of the conflict. Even in the midst of chaos, some Germans managed to retain a gritty sense of humor. "For example," Rumpf relates, "when two like-minded Berlin citizens met after a particularly devastating raid, the gag of the moment was to make a sweeping gesture to take in the devastation and repeat a previous appeal made by the Fuhrer himself: Give me four years...
...Banda stressed, however, that Nyasaland wished to attract European capital and would retain white civil servants after independence...
...department rejected the plan, however, because they hesitated to destroy the "freer relationship" of a non-credit course, Constable said. Before going to the "extreme" of awarding credit, the department will experiment with the present relationship, where the tutorial has more weight in the department but "will retain its freedom as far as University Hall is concerned...
Though one of the Nagare trademarks is a smooth finish, he leaves a link with nature in his sculpture. His technique is called ware hada, or broken texture, whereby some surfaces retain the original texture of the raw rock as it broke naturally in the mountains. When he cannot obtain it, he drills holes, fills them with water, and puts the stones outdoors in freezing weather to split by themselves. This textural contrast is vital to Nagare: "You have to have male and female. Like anything else under the sun, you have to have light and shadow, movement and stillness...