Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country that your decisions are based on much more full and accurate evidence than judgments on a book you haven't even read." Newsmen who had overheard the conversation at first agreed that they would consider it off the record; but the story, too intriguing and important to keep quiet, was printed two days later, first by Des Moines Register and Tribune Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff...
...resigned, as he had six times before in the past eleven years. By law, ministers are then supposed to stay on as a caretaker government until the next elections. In this case, unforgiving Premier Ben-Gurion might designate the four leftists as ministers without portfolio so that he can keep them out of his Cabinet meetings...
...parents: "Your boy will never live to be 20." Now the father of a 20-year-old son, Hansen lives with a heart condition and the boyhood-inspired fear that his heart may stop beating. To prevent this, he says that he hopes to "will" his heart to keep beating, just as he can "will" it to stop beating...
...Mate." In Clackmannanshire on the Firth of Forth, Editor John Ogilvie sat up all night setting type himself, brought out his weekly Alloa Circular and Hillfoots Record on time. Girl typists helped keep the Birmingham Mail on the streets by having a go at the Linotype machines ("Eh, mate. Can't we have overalls like you?" called one begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided...
...dozen or so operatic versions, chiefly Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi's Falstaff, or Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love. But the directors were willing to gamble (or gambol); and their slot (or slut) machine has come up with three cherries--a winning combination that ought to keep the box office coffers filled and the audience coughers silent...