Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Judge Medina denied the motion for mistrial and announced that garrulous Juror Janney would keep his seat. What was more, the judge added, he was fed up with the noisy Communist picket lines outside the courthouse and the cascade of telegrams and letters poured in on him by Communist sympathizers. "I will not be intimidated," he said...
...Washington, through apathy, ignorance and sympathy, found itself stuck with a welfare system that was even gaudier than California's Proposition 4. One out of every twelve persons in the state would get financial assistance for two years and the other eleven would pay almost as much to keep them as the Government spent building Grand Coulee Dam. Unless it instituted a sizable new tax program, the state was almost certain to go into...
Meek little Mitsuo Handa had never wanted to make a million yen or be a conquering hero. In his home town of Maebashi, a crumbling provincial capital near Tokyo, Handa spent just enough time at his little bicycle shop to keep his wife and two children in rice and modest clothes; the rest of his time he fribbled away in an aimless search for a milder spiritual refuge than the stern Shintoism of his ancestors...
...England, Van Dyck had everything, but like King Charles, he couldn't keep it. The elegant night life wore him down; the importunities of such lovely mistresses as Margaret Lemon (who once tried to stab his painting hand) exhausted him. At 40, Van Dyck left England to Cromwell's Roundheads, returned to Antwerp. He had hopes of becoming Rubens' successor in the field of mythological and religious painting, but within three years he died. Had he lived longer, the crackerjack art student, playboy and plaything of society might have known disappointment ; big things were...
When a pregnant woman feels sorry for herself and wants a chocolate fudge sundae, she should have it, says Dr. Arthur G. King of Cincinnati. In the current American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. King challenges the prevailing fashion among obstetricians of warning patients to keep their weight gains below an arbitrary 25 pounds...