Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Because of our belief that the state should exist for the benefit of the individual and not the individual for the benefit of the state, we uphold the basic right of peoples to governments of their own choice . . . During the past ten and more years 600 million men and women in nearly a score of lands have, with our support and assistance, attained nationhood. Many millions more are being helped surely and steadily towards self-government. Thus, the reality and effectiveness of what we have done is a proof of our sincerity. Further, we know that political independence cannot alone...
...swimmers have beaten Brookline and Andover without a loss to uphold early season reports. Dick Seaton and Frank German stand out in the two meets...
...certain domestic fields, too, the President's program should receive support from Democratic strategists. Expansion of social security and other social welfare proposals certainly sound good within the President's general terms, and flood insurance is something that both parties should uphold. The President seems to have come around to the Democratic position on a pay-as-you-ride highway construction program, so there should be enough support for this important measure. A review of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act is another suggestion that ought to be adopted...
Councillor Hyman Pill explained the CCA's abstention by asserting that the association's minority will "wait and see" which independent will agree to cooperate with CCA-backed city manager John J. Curry '19 and uphold CCA school committee policies. Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, unofficial spokesman for the CCA group, said yesterday that "any of the five independents might be acceptable, but the CCA will make sure that he's the man we want before we pick...
...talks" but not "negotiations" with the Russians. Even the Socialist opposition leader Erich Ollenhauer, who like many Germans would like to find a cheap way out if there were one, promised that the Socialists would never agree to reunification except in "freedom and law." The Bundestag voted solidly to uphold Adenauer's policy of "undeviating" solidarity with the West...