Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white-and-green sash of office from his shoulders, draped it on his successor, returned to his seat and retired from public life. López Mateos repeated the oath of office, which, in anticlerical Mexico, specifically excludes the usual "so help me God." "I promise to observe and uphold," he said, "the political Constitution of the United States of Mexico and the laws that derive from it. And if I fail, may the people call me to account...
Central issues for the debate will be differences in party views toward labor and the Middle East. Debating for the Democrats will be Gregory M. Harvey '59 and Edward C. Pinkus '59, while Peter M. Smith '62 and Peter V. Lockwood '62 will uphold the Republican side...
Ignoring the tension, the new President called on his countrymen to work with him for the "reestablishment of government authority" and "above all, the speedy evacuation of foreign forces." A Christian elected with Moslem support, Chehab pledged himself to uphold "the unwritten constitution." This was the 1943 compact in which Lebanon's Christian and Moslem communities agreed that Moslems would refrain from urging merger with other Arab states, Christians would hold back from aligning the country too closely with any Western power...
...Arizona territory. In the 1860s Big Mike Goldwater, Barry's grandfather, packed in behind a mule to found the mercantile business which now does $6,000,000 a year in five Goldwater department stores, spawned a robustious breed whose reputation for high jinks Barry did his best to uphold. An experienced pilot, he flew over all 114,000 sq. mi. of his state, landed long enough to fall in love with the landscape and the Indian tribes, snap thousands of color pictures, race down the perilous Colorado River in a flatboat-making friends everywhere...
...which you live, and have filled the whole nation with horror, indignation and disgust. Everyone, irrespective of the color of their skins, is entitled to walk through our streets in peace with their heads erect, and free from fear. That is a right which these courts will always unfailingly uphold...