Word: abreast
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...reason is both age and health. Now no cocktail party passes in the District without a new anecdote about the Secretary's dozing off in some important conference, of his inability to work more than a few hours a day, of his valiant but losing struggle to keep abreast of the demands of war in 1941. No reflections are made on his spirit, his mind, his will: the emphasis is on his years...
...biggest art gallery in the world: the daily spectators run into the hundreds of thousands. The artists who put on this show, and who work in every medium from paint and cardboard to shoes and underwear, are paid as high as $10,000 a year. Their technique, which keeps abreast of every newfangled idea, has become so tricky that window shoppers have to be smart to tell the merchandise from the scenery...
...would be attacked by hordes of well-meaning patriots, and very likely persecuted out of existence, even though in some future day the Germany of Adolph Hitler will probably be a far more important object of study than the Vichy government or occupied France. Thus does Harvard keep abreast of the latest fashions in scholarship and patriotic sentiment...
...nightingale for a pet and he tended pots of orchids with his own hands. He woke each day to contemplate an ancient plum tree silhouetted against the white paper shoji-screen. of his bedroom. He represented also the West: constitution-maker, reader of French philosophy, always abreast of international inventions such as Naziism...
Perhaps all these hopes are a little too bright and a little too hopeful: their fulfillment is necessary if Harvard is to stay abreast of the times...