Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adverse weather which prevailed throughout the game. A high wind was blowing at most times and the temperature was a wintry 40 degrees. B.C. pitcher George Giersch, perhaps the finest hurler in the Greater Boston League is primarily a slow ball, control pitcher, and he just could not keep the fine edge on his pitches under such conditions...
...just contain and contain, and keep this tension we take the chance everyday of someone making a mistake. If we just keep containment we are in constant danger of mistakes," the Governor said. He voiced the opinion that the United Nations was merely an instrument of this containment, and in the long run would only prolong the era of nationalistic tensions rather than allow them to be submerged in a system of world-wide federalism...
Completing a short but brilliant flurry of sporting activity which had earlier seen a stirring crew victory over the Harvard Lampoon, the CRIMSON scored fifteen runs in the first inning but just one in each frame thereafter--in a gracious gesture to keep the score down...
...quietly voicing some private enthusiasms over some very good, very old brandy. His trick is to talk mostly about people and not too much about his advertised subject. The novels of Germany's Goethe make an occasion to discuss a man of genius who found it hard to keep away from a pretty woman. After a lucid introduction to Hindu religion, he describes the life of a swami who found the secret of existence in a boyhood flash of illumination and pursued a course of sainthood to his death. And by the simple process of digging up the diaries...
...watching in the months ahead. It remains to be seen whether Castro can control the forces he has let loose (executions continue with increased zeal and with new capital crimes invented all the time) and, equally important, whether he can institute programs for economic and social reform which will keep him in and Communists out of power. Observers have pointed out that Cuba could prove "another Iraq," with revolution by pro-Western forces proving merely the prologue to inceased Communist control...