Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merola. The man who more than anyone has kept the San Francisco Opera on an even artistic and financial keel is Gaetano Merola, a 63-year-old Neapolitan with a vegetable-wagon accent. Merola arrived in San Francisco in 1921 as one of the batoneers of the barnstorming San Carlo Opera. He promptly lost his shirt and lightened several other people's pock ets producing an outdoor opera season at the Stanford University Stadium...
...water, and the hulk listed dangerously. Months of body-breaking labor hung in the balance. A fast-thinking crew member picked up a shotgun, blasted the air hose. Gently the ship settled back into the water, to be brought up again slowly and on an even keel...
...Henry Kaiser's shipyards in the Northwest went back to a seven-day week. The reason: inability to obtain 10,000 additional workers needed to keep pace with tanker and transport building schedules. But at the Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard at Baltimore, the keel was laid for a sleek, 9,902-ton freighter intended for the postwar services of the American Export Lines to Mediterranean and Indian ports...
Despite a slow start, the contest lived up to Coach Adolph Samborski's pregame prediction of "a good game." During the first half the teams felt each other out and kept on a fairly even scoring keel, with neither team able to pull more than five points ahead...
...central argument Professor Harris invoked in support of such a program was that it would stimulate buying and cut down individual saving, thus helping to keep the "mature economy" on an even keel...