Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grappling with a multiplicity of problems. The prosaic business of supplying new homes with gas, sewage lines and electricity had taken on the breathless urgency of a serum flight to Nome. Under Bowron's administration 50 miles of cast-iron water mains had been laid every month to keep up with the city's mushrooming growth. Los Angeles had built 34 new schools in ten years and still needed "a new one every Monday morning." Though the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. had installed 416,338 telephones since V-J day, it was 41,405 orders behind last week...
...hands stopped waving. "It's a damn lie," she screamed. Little Archie was on his feet yelling his objections. From the courtroom, the voice of Judy's mother rose in a piercing wail. Judge Albert Reeves threatened to have Mrs. Rebecca Coplon removed and warned her to keep quiet. Kelley's flat voice persisted. Didn't Judy also spend the night of Jan. 8 with Shapiro in Philadelphia? Didn't she spend New Year's Eve with Shapiro "in fornication in an apartment of a friend of his in the city?", nights with...
...defendants in a criminal case had ever had more impressive assistance. Justice Frankfurter adjusted his glasses and cleared his throat. "I will rely on Your Honor to keep me within bounds," he told Federal Judge Samuel H. Kaufman. "Of course, sir," beamed Judge Kaufman...
...with Pérez Jiménez for army support. Llovera Páez, No. 3 man, has been an uncertain balance of power-but not a power in himself. In the scramble for sides, several hundred officers have been quietly jailed. The strategy of A.D. leaders is to keep building up strength until army strife gives them a wide-open chance to take over the government...
...such prisoners (the underground says 2,000) are still in jail. It does not know what to do with them. Moaned Llovera Páez: "If we exile them, they discredit us abroad. If we free them in the country, they lead the opposition against us. If we keep them in jail everybody criticizes...