Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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With cuts on his thigh and back, Alvord stepped into the blocks for the 220 just 25 minutes later, but he couldn't maintain a narrow lead over Dedmond and George Forsythe, finishing third...
...understand your vanity, is most harmful. Johnson writes of the treachery and hunger of the human heart and imagination: the need for hope, and the folly of self-deceptions which languish life away in the gloom of anxiety. Chekhov writes of the misery of overwrought people struggling to maintain self-control against unhappiness they do not understand. Both writers see themselves subject to the same errors and anxieties. Johsnon, despite his reputation as a prodigious moralist, majestically ordering life with indefatigable lucidity through the irresistible ebb and flow of his periodic prose, as profoundly melancholy man with a resilient...
There is little doubt that a tide of militancy is building up in other Caribbean countries as well. Many West Indians maintain that black power against black governments makes little sense. But militants dismiss their present leaders as "Afro-Saxons" and press for revolutionary change. In response, West Indian governments have resorted to a wide range of precautionary measures. The Jamaican government banned the works of Malcolm X. Bermuda canceled a schoolboy sports meet to avoid the danger of a racial incident, and Trinidad reportedly refused stopover privileges to one of her most illustrious native sons, Stokely Carmichael. This...
...reviving the economy, building national self-esteem and cracking class barriers-but they concede that his achievements were more than canceled out by the demonic evils of Nazism. But many of those over 50, who remember the humiliation after World War I and the chaos of the Weimar Republic, maintain that Hitler's positive accomplishments outweigh the negative. The memoirs of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and wartime production czar, are still a bestseller in West Germany eight months after publication (TIME, Sept...
...scuffle with marshals who had grabbed from them a note written by Seale. A week later the judge commuted the sentences to "time served" and ordered the two released after they-and Seale-made public apologies to the court for the outburst. At that time. Sale pledged to "maintain decorum" in the courtroom. "I pledge allegiance to the United States of America. I pledge allegiance to liberty and justice." he said. "I want a fair trial and I respect your honor very much...