Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, in the gigantic empty caverns where oratory and reason often mix in unequal proportions, workmen had ripped out the seats and equipment in the Senate and House chambers; ugly steel beams still upheld the ceilings. A visitor to Washington would find the President of the U.S. and Senators and Representatives all working in crabbed quarters...
While upholding the new puritanism, Szabad Nep also upheld the importance of being pretty. In reply to a woman reader who remarked that she had no time to think about her looks, the fashion editor wrote sternly: "In your opinion, Comrade, it is a waste of time if a woman desires to express by a spotlessly laundered blouse or neatly groomed hair that she lives and works in a healthy and free country . . . You are 35, married, and have a child . . . Did you ever think what it would mean to your husband* if he could see you at home...
Last week, New York State's highest court, by a 4-10-3 vote, upheld Metropolitan's Jim Crow policy. The Negroes' next stop: the U.S. Supreme Court...
...might divide his people, politically and geographically, by deepening the division between Flemings (who tend to support the King) and Walloons (who distrust his alleged pro-Flemish sympathies). Leopold, said one report, favored a solution that would allow him to return to Brussels with honor vindicated and constitution upheld, then abdicate in favor of his son Baudouin...
During the 55-day trial the prosecution refused to say whose fingerprints were found on the murder bottle (apparently the evidence would have helped the defense), and was upheld by the trial court. The six were found guilty, sentenced to die in the electric chair...