Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heretofore, Harvard picked a president to please the alumni, the faculty, the student body, and one who could be relied upon to uphold the American tradition of freedom of inquiry, freedom of criticism, and the freedom to make honest mistakes...
...Student Council last night voted to uphold tradition as it overwhelmingly quashed attempts to supply Radcliffe cheerleaders at varsity and freshman basketball games...
...continued to maintain at least nominal sway over what remained of high society. At the 1949 opening of the Metropolitan Opera, she appeared in a wheelchair, persuaded to suffer this discomfort by a friend's remark that Queen Mary was upset because "so few were left to uphold traditions...
...teaching profession who claims the privilege when teachers are the subject of investigation tends to cast discredit on the profession as a whole. Even when he has a clear legal right to refuse to testify, a teacher should weigh against his own self-protection his colleagues to help uphold the standing of his and their profession...
...cited 17 separate post-World War I treaties in which the Soviets had explicitly agreed that there should be no forced repatriation of prisoners. "Pretty good doctrine," Acheson murmured; why weren't they for it now? Then the U.S. Secretary of State formally called on the committee to uphold the U.N. negotiators at Panmunjom and to reaffirm their stand against forcible repatriation...