Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really quite simple. Their man was so prolific-writing longhand on a lap board at the rate of 100,000 words a month-that no publisher could have hoped to keep pace. Grey's attic yielded so many leftover manuscripts that Harper's will be able to maintain its practice of putting out an annual Zane Grey novel "for the next several years...
There is only one real issue in South African politics: the pace and vigor with which the Union's 3,000,000 whites maintain their dominance over South Africa's 11,000,000 blacks and coloreds. It is eleven years since the Boer Afrikaner National Party rode into power on a platform of apartheid-all-out segregation. Since then, at the cost of twisting the nation's parliamentary and judicial traditions almost beyond recognition, and using a curious mixture of police-state methods and paternalism, the Nationalists have gone a long way toward fulfilling their segregation promises...
LUXURY STORE FIGHT for Harrods of London, Britain's most elegant department store, was won by thistle-sharp Scots Millionaire Hugh Fraser, after battle with rival Debenhams chain. Fraser, who heads $78 million no-frill, working-class House of Fraser chain, promises to maintain Harrods' morning-coat reputation...
...granting asylum to ex-President Batista in the quiet and isolated island of Madeira." said Portugal, "the government has been moved solely by its earnest desire to assist the parties more directly concerned to maintain peace in a vital area of the world." At the Lisbon airport, cops threw a protective ring around Batista's 15-man party, sped it off to a gold-and-blue suite at the just-opened Ritz Hotel. "I am out of politics," Batista told the few newsmen admitted to his rooms. "Cubans deserve their own decisions. They chose not to have...
...probably make more, but she handles her own finances, a foredoomed undertaking considering the uncertain economics of the Indian cinema. Rubber paychecks pile up, and she is never quite sure who owes her what. "It is embarrassing to ask for money," she says. Even so, she makes enough to maintain a Bombay apartment and a summer home in the hills. She has a Chrysler, a Chevrolet, five long-haired Pomeranians, and a constant army of beggars on her doorstep...