Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manners based on rights. There is "dour deference for the first comer, the man at the head of the queue." A "ritual of the queue" has evolved, in which women take part with stock phrases like "This lady was before me, I think," and "Would you keep my place...
...annual meeting in Philadelphia, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its president, paused while pinning up convention badges (see cut) to pin down just what had prompted U.S. concessions to the Russians at Yalta. Explained Mrs. Colvin: "American representatives wondered...how the Russians could consume such large quantities of vodka and keep sober, when it had an intoxicating effect upon the Americans. But we have learned since that Stalin and the Soviets outwit the representatives of other nations by plying them with vodka while the Russians drink water from vodka bottles...
Whatever his background, a youngster entering the Republic earns his own livelihood, pays for his board & keep in one of the nine cottage-type dormitories in the Republic's own currency (redeemable at about 50? on the dollar). Jobs range from ditchdigging and housekeeping to plumbing, carpentry, masonry, welding, and office chores. Average income of a Republic citizen is about 15 Republican dollars a week, of which living expenses take about ten. Chief drains on the remainder: Republican income taxes, to pay salaries and expenses of junior government officials; clothing and travel; savings...
...steel) for the tremendous pressures at lower depths-2,000 pounds per square inch at 4,500 feet. It also has a new three-inch quartz window, slanted toward the bottom; the Bathysphere had side windows only. It carries a six-hour supply of oxygen in cylinders, fans to keep the air circulating, and trays of soda lime to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by breathing...
Faced with the Labor government's plan to take over the sugar industry, Great Britain's biggest sugar company, Tate & Lyle, decided to fight back. On the 2,000,000 cartons of sugar it sells daily, Tate &. Lyle printed: "Keep S Out of State"; "Tate, Not State"; "Untouched by Hand-Hands Off Sugar." Last week, after two months of campaigning, Tate & Lyle's Lord Lyle charged that the Ministry of Food had tried to throttle his propaganda. Not so, said the Ministry: "Lord Lyle's statement mystifies us. The ministry has no powers, to intervene...