Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Classics in an English public school--"the Himmel of the Lower Fifth," as he is characterized by the headmaster. The play concerns the gradual eliciting of his emotions toward himself, his work and his promiscuous wife. A humorless man, he had been unable, throughout his career, to maintain the delicate balance between discipline and affability--taking refuge in a severity which was lightened only by dry puns. The climax occurs when a member of his alienated Greek class presents him, on his retirement, with a copy of Browning version of the "Agamemnon"--second hand--inscribed with a tender quote from...
...This bill is a very important step toward a solution to the dollar-shortage problem, the sterling problem and the continuation of our own prosperity," declared Georgia's studious Walter George. "If we do not make every effort to [maintain export trade], we might as well abandon the Marshall Plan and stop wasting our money." After seven days of debate, the Senate was facing a vote on extension of the reciprocal-trade program...
...from the Cocktails. Big as Father Franks's Embassy is, it is slickly streamlined to maintain the most sensitive contact with the State Department at all levels-especially the ones just below the top, where decisions are so often born...
...Methodists, who outnumber any other Protestant group in the U.S., maintain 60% of their 40,397 churches in small communities with congregations of fewer than 300 members
Delegates advised that class presidents and a representative of NSA should be included in the Student Employment Committee. The Committee, formerly only engaged in placing students in jobs, would then work also with the appointment bureau to maintain student contact with graduate placement opportunities...