Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home improvement loan program, known as Title I. Under this program, FHA guaranteed more than 16,500,000 loans to homeowners for repairs. With inadequate funds, and without permission from Congress to inspect each loan, the FHA had been forced to rely on the prudence of banks to uphold ethical standards. In many instances, the reliance was misplaced. Con men and crooked contractors have made millions from overevaluated loans for slapdash or nonexistent repairs...
...philosopher is one who is capable of making distinctions. TIME can well be placed in that category [with] its article on Vydvizhenets Khrushchev [Nov. 30], which brought to light a distinction that the Ukrainian people staunchly and vigorously uphold . . . You have rendered these people great justice by rightly acknowledging them as a nation not to be" confused with Russia . . . a distinction which surpasses the attention . . . of many a statesman. TIME alone . . . has understood precisely that the Ukrainians . . . are truly "proud of their mother tongue, and do have a national pride that centuries of conflict . . . have not dimmed but glorified...
...true, is Ann's husband (Zachary Scott), but he is a weakling, and probably couldn't even uphold her shoulder strap in an argument. Four others, escaped convicts, are led by a hard-breathing type (Rodolfo Acosta) whose fondness for silk has nothing to do with its denier. Only the sixth man (Glenn Ford) can keep him from fingering the stuff, because only Ford knows the way through the jungle to safety from the agents of a revolutionary junta who are dashing in pursuit...
...university in quite the accepted sense, adding, however, that they never really wanted it to be anyway. President Harold W. Dodds expressed such an attitude when he said, "We shall continue to stress the college as the element which alone gives meaning to a university. We shall uphold the banner of the general as the only safe foundation for the particular. We shall strive for quality rather than quantity; we have no illusions of grandeur that bigness will satisfy. We shall resist the pressure to be large in numbers, for we believe that we can best serve our democracy...
...domestic foes. ¶ The U.S. got a big Churchillian bouquet, and a homily on its past mistakes. "Had the U.S. taken before the First World War, or between the wars, the same interest and made the same exertions and run the same risks to preserve peace and uphold freedom which, I thank God, she is doing now, there might never have been a first war, and there would certainly never have been a second. With [America's] mighty aid, I have a sure hope that there will not be a third...