Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reserved the roughest treatment of all for his much-abused Vice Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard. To CBS, Adenauer confided that he planned to stay in office as Chancellor through the 1961 elections and expected to have a voice in selecting his successor, a clear hint that he might keep Erhard out of the job even then. To Paris-Match, Adenauer boasted that, in contrast to Erhard, he was a "100% politician" with a worldwide acquaintance among the world's leaders, including Khrushchev...
Since 1942, Fuchs confessed, he had been a Russian spy-not for money (a mere $280 was all he got), but convinced that he was somehow serving to bring about and keep the peace. He admitted that he had passed on atomic secrets to Soviet agents in New York. Los Alamos and London (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed in the U.S. for treason, were members of the Fuchs spy ring). He had not felt that he was betraying his adopted country or his many British and U.S. friends, said Fuchs, because he was able to keep his Communist and democratic...
...blame: nature this spring took a cruel hand in China, as it so often has before. While flooding rains fell over huge chunks of Central China, the provinces of Kirin and Hopei were parched by drought. In Szechwan, a force of 40 million Chinese was working desperately to keep a wheat crop, badly weakened by unseasonably warm weather in the spring, from toppling over. In Honan, 5,000,000 farmers were battling swarms of insects, and six other provinces were plagued by plant fungus. Finally, last week, came official reports that "the worst flood of the century" had been raging...
...narrow strait ("The Hole") connecting Buzzards Bay with Vineyard Sound. The ocean is always a presence there, flowing around the town and through its small, snug harbors. Grey fog often drifts through the town, smelling of the sea, and sometimes hurricanes slam ashore. No better place exists to keep an oceanographer pleasantly mindful of his business...
From her first day in the convent, Sister Luke (Audrey Hepburn) finds it harder than her sisters do to give up the natural for the spiritual life. Of her three vows-poverty, chastity, obedience-she can keep two without much difficulty, but the third is her undoing. She cannot manage to keep the silence that is required of all novices; she cannot bear to stop whatever she is doing when the bell of command is rung; she cannot persuade her thoughts from memories and objects, "the vanity of this world." Her nature rebels because her will insists on nothing less...