Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighty-one million people (increasing at the rate of about one million a year) were bottled up on the overcrowded islands of Japan in a space hardly capable of supporting 50 million. The disaster, which Japan had richly earned, was compounded by a U.S. policy which was designed to keep Japan forever from waging another war. As it turned out, the cost was whopping, and it was paid by the U.S. taxpayer, who had to help support a destitute Japan...
...Willis was dying of leukemia, but nobody had told her how sick she was. When the 13-year-old youngster developed a strange craving for watermelon, not available in Tucson, her doctor appealed to the Arizona Daily Star for help. It promptly asked its readers to help Barbara. To keep the truth of her sickness from her, Barbara's parents hid the newspaper. But that only made Barbara suspicious. She guessed that she was dying, and she refused to eat anything at all. Desperately, Barbara's mother appealed to the Star to "print something to make her happy...
Like Dagwood, Chic Young has a wife (a redhead), two children and a dog. But the Youngs are not models for the Bumsteads, because Young has found that "one family doesn't turn out enough humor to keep a strip going year in & year out." Instead, he keeps a sharp eye peeled for ideas, stores them up for future...
...night, Hadden went home with a cold, and it turned into a streptococcus infection that put him in the hospital. As he wasted away, Luce called on him every night to keep him abreast of TIME'S doings. Hadden, kept up by blood transfusions, still remembering the early days of the magazine, sometimes found it hard to realize TIME'S success. One evening, as Luce outlined the magazine's first big advertising campaign-to cost $20,000-Hadden asked in alarm: "My God, Harry, have we got that much money...
Henry Young's leg infection will keep him out of today's encounter, but Coach Samborski would not commit himself as to whether he or Cabot would be at short even if he were sound. Young's injury over the past week has given Cabot a second chance to try for a regular's role, and he has looked more than adequate in the attempt...