Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to other weaker characters who have not her resilience. Her physician, forced by post-war stresses into drug addiction, is one example of a character who falls by the wayside. Anothers is Willi, her brother-in-law who dissipates into a broken alcoholic. Unlike them, Maria manages to keep going. In a crazy, loyal way, she keeps visiting Herman in mail, pressing upon him money, speaking fondly of the day when he will be freed...
...Washington, there were round-the-clock meetings of the National Security Council. At the State Department's operations center, Iranian specialists frantically tried to keep in touch with Tehran and with the few American officials there who were not in the students' hands. In New York City, the United Nations Security Council convened in special closed session to search for a solution. Said Jimmy Carter to reporters on Thursday: "These last two days have been the worst I've had." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance counseled the nation grimly and correctly: "It is a time not for rhetoric...
...affaires Laingen stayed at the Foreign Ministry all week, filing protests and trying to keep in touch with the State Department in Washington...
While the Army's 82nd Airborne Division is trained for quick deployment to global hotspots, its base at Fort Bragg, N.C., is 6,500 miles from Tehran. It probably would not be possible to keep secret the dispatching of even a few of its elite units. Said a senior Pentagon official: "You alert the 82nd, and within minutes someone would call his mama to tell her that he was going. Then the news would...
...John, Harvard's senior quarterback, received no deference from his subjects this fall, and has struggled all year to remain healthy and to keep the Crimson ahead...