Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time (16 seconds faster than the record). She seemed to be a cinch to win the A.A.U. crown later in the week. But at the last minute, someone raised the question of whether Netherlands Nell was eligible to compete in a U.S. championship. When embarrassed A.A.U. officials failed to uphold her eligibility at once, Nell withdrew, saved further red faces. Next day, Clara Lamore of Providence won the 220-yard breast stroke in 3:10.5 (more than 19 seconds behind Nell's practice-swim time). Who had questioned Nell's eligibility, and on what exact grounds? Officials were...
...politically, militarily and economically organized. I do not criticize; I observe a state of affairs. . . . But then I say, you [Communists] have accomplished this organization, this union. Naturally, you will see no good reason why we should not do the same thing ourselves. . . . The policy which the Russians uphold and approve in Eastern Europe cannot, naturally, be simultaneously a matter for worry when practiced in Western Europe...
...dilemma is whether to keep the venal friendship of the Arabs, which they cannot afford to forsake, or whether to uphold the honor and decency of the U.S. and the hard-pressed authority of the United Nations. The dilemma, thus, does not exist; it lacks horns...
...Second Day. Communists paraded, crying: "Away with reaction!" Anti-Communists paraded, crying: "We will uphold party democracy! London is calling at 9 o'clock!" (This was a bitter reference to the days of Nazi occupation, when BBC broadcasts brought Czechoslovakia's only hope of freedom.) Mass arrests continued. Premier Gottwald's "action committees" seized most factories not yet nationalized; they occupied all the ministries not yet in charge of Communists. President Benes wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Czech Communist party: "I have been thinking ... I am trying to see clearly. ... I feel...
...Crimson's stand on American Neutrality this spring has not been an easy one to uphold . . . This June morning we can still declare that coercive militarism in America boars no different stamp from militarism in Germany . . . But next September we may well be Americanized . . . and youth will be freed by definite action from skepticism and disillusionment." (June...