Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood purge." Gradually he withdrew from social life. His heart had never been quite equal to his spiritual drive, nor was it equal to the exacting, wearing work of the court. His Bible was by now so thumbed and tattered he had to wrap it in a towel to keep it intact...
...flatten a man like Miller with ease. But two other conservative candidates might divide Harry Byrd's traditional bloc of 110,000 to 130,000 machine-turned votes. They were Horace Edwards, 46, former mayor of Richmond, who broke with the machine last year when Byrd tried to keep Harry Truman's name off Virginia's ballot ; and Remmie L. Arnold, a pen & pencil maker and inveterate "joiner" (he is slated to become Imperial Potentate of the Shrine...
...authority and leadership. But the basic division is not one of personality: it cuts far deeper, into national hopes & fears. Fundamentally, the British distrust the French and do not believe that France and Western Europe could be successfully defended against attack. They foresee only another Dunkirk and want to keep their military commitments on the Continent to a minimum. The British attitude toward the defense of the Continent is parallel to the distrust of "European entanglements" by those U.S. leaders who oppose the Atlantic pact and M.A.P...
...time for a change-but not much change. The Conservatives issued a 68-page booklet called The Right Road for Britain. Its theme was familiar to Americans who remembered how Wendell Willkie and Thomas E. Dewey tried to beat the Roosevelt New Deal. The Tories promised to keep most of the reforms the Labor Party had introduced; but they would carry them out better, and cheaper...
Lord Beaverbrook's anti-Socialist London Express fumed with disappointment: "The picture emerging from the Tory statement is that of half-socialized, state-guided economy ... If Britain is going to recover by the methods of Socialism, would it not be wiser to keep the Socialists in power...