Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department has long urged a treaty; the Pentagon wants to go as long as possible without one, thus keeping U.S. occupation troops in Japan. One possible compromise: a peace conference with the U.S.'s allies (allowing Russia no veto), backed by a collateral agreement to maintain U.S. military bases at strategic locations away from the big cities after the occupation troops have sailed for home...
...Korean army's best officers were once Japanese majors or lieutenants, and they still maintain Oriental protocol. All ranks are salute-happy-even sergeants rate the stiff-handed Japanese salute-and one battalion commander nostalgically keeps his old samurai sword hanging above his desk. Says Major General Byong Duk Choe, the Korean army's 36-year-old chief of staff: "For the first year my head still worked Japanese style. Now it has improved. The difference between the Japanese army and ours is like the difference between the American M-1 rifle and the clumsy Japanese Type...
Cold War or Hot War. The British would obviously not disband their infantry and rely entirely on the French, nor would they sink the Royal Navy and count on the U.S. fleet. Both the British and the French would need some all-round forces to maintain their overseas possessions. Moreover, the plan which the Foreign Ministers approved had yet to be ratified by their governments and parliaments. Yet a pattern of efficient, integrated defense had at last been laid down. The London plan constituted progress unthinkable five years ago. That fact was promptly acknowledged by the Red press, which sputtered...
French Commander in Chief Marcel Carpentier aims to sweep Ho Chi Minh's men from the lower, heavily populated Mekong and Red River valleys. These are the best rice-producing areas and consequently the best source of rebel supply. By airlift and truck convoy, the French maintain a line of forts at the Chinese border, where aid could flow...
Much was to be said and written about Grant's drinking. Toping was common enough in Grant's home town (if a man failed to get drunk at least three or four times a year, he "could hardly maintain his standing in the community, or in the local churches"). But Lewis shows that Grant himself was no habitual drunkard. Married after the Mexican War to Julia Dent, a Missouri plantation belle and the love of his life, Sam Grant was soon separated from her by Army transfer to the gold-struck Pacific Coast. There, among raging prices...