Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State could keep the Communists out, as the Communists had kept the Americans out of Russian territory. Or he could let them in, label them well and let them talk their heads off. He issued the visas-and a frosty statement that the U.S. "entertains no illusions as to the manner in which the Communists will attempt to use and manipulate the present conference...
...State Department intended to use their presence here as ammunition for the daily Voice of America broadcasts to Eastern Europe. In the case of Shostakovich, a few dreamers hoped for more sensational results: the New York musicians' union invited the submissive Soviet composer, who works hard to keep in tune with his masters, to unpack and let "his genius flower ... in the blessed air of freedom." No one could guess how Shostakovich really felt about the idea. By all the evidences he and the artistic high command in the Kremlin were singing in the same key again. Shostakovich...
...Senate majority leader, Scott Lucas, had put on an inept show, bellicose when tact was required, weak and confused when strength was called for. The Republicans had nailed civil rights into their party platform, but a majority of Senate Republicans had used a quibble over rules to keep civil rights from coming to a vote. The filibustering Southern Democrats had hollered over the holy rights of a minority in the Senate while contriving to deny basic rights of citizenship to a minority of 9,530,000 Negroes in the South...
...owns two tractors and a combine; his barn and tool sheds are jammed with plows, harrows, seeders. "I have bought everything I am going to buy," said Horton. "I've got a full line of equipment, about $10,000 worth, I guess, and I'm going to keep...
...tillon. It was "nonsense," he said, to claim Saint-Sylvestre's uranium strike as the world's richest. The Belgian Congo fields were yielding a 50% ore. However, Saint-Sylvestre's pitchblende deposits, though not yet fully explored, were of major importance. They might keep Zoé going without imports...