Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burton-Becket hardly senses this obsession; his concern is his own soul, "Where honor should be, in me there is only a void," he tells his mistress (Sian Phillips). Then the easy-living courtier becomes archbishop, and fate summons him to uphold "the honor of God." But does he die to defend canon law, made great by the great office thrust upon him, or is he merely a self-appointed martyr in search of his Cain? Given a mass of ambiguities to project, Burton projects them remarkably well. He daringly meets the competition offered by O'Toole with...
...contrary, say Conant's critics, colleges are not "responsible" enough to uphold high standards on their...
Dana S. Hanson, executive secretary of the Cambridge Civic Association, predicted last night that the Senate will again uphold Peabody's veto unless a substantial number of absentee Senators join the bill's supporters...
Kilpatrick said that the triumph of integration would result in the loss of those "race values"--the separation of powers and the rights of property, which he called the "first of human rights." "I uphold the rights of a Negro to buy a house from my neighbor," he said, "but I uphold mine to sell my house to whom I please...
...decreed that all those with more than two years' service should be retained as firemen or given other jobs. This gesture did not satisfy the two union members on the seven-man board, and they plan to contest the decision in the U.S. courts. Even if the courts uphold the board, the decision is binding for only two years. In addition, union negotiations for wage hikes, scheduled to start this week, have a Feb. 24 deadline. Unless the railroads give in some on the issue of work crews, says Firemen's Union Chief H. E. Gilbert...