Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian non-aggression treaties. In a Franco-German war one of them would have to be broken, but that does not trouble the conscience of Colonel Beck. He plays the field. For instance, last September he strung along with the Rome-Berlin axis in the Czechoslovak rape. However, he kept a small bet on the democracies by declining to sign the anti-Comintern pact...
...believe that all discoveries and inventions which may be used for war, crime and other similar purposes should be kept secret, not only from the totalitarian countries but from all, except the government of this country and a limited circle of socially and morally sound specialists. They should be kept also secret from the allied foreign powers because today's friends may easily become tomorrow's enemies...
Said dogged Shreck. "I just kept going." Said his wife: "It's wonderful." Said an airport friend of the flying weatherman, as a sort of explanation for Pilot Shreck's escape rather than a comment on his fix: "He never drinks or smokes...
...Tell Me, Pretty Maiden quite fetchingly; then for the rest of the show they gallivant with various admirers whose attentions go considerably beyond candy, books and flowers. One Pretty Maiden goes in for blackmail; another enjoys watching her aged suitor tumble down a flight of steps; a third is kept by a pal of the Mayor's; a fourth gets a venereal disease from her lover and shoots...
Dunc Longcope gave one of the best fights of any one during the afternoon. The sophomore handed 175 pound Captain Robert Taylor another football man of the Lions a tough fight as he kept him from winning by any more than a decision. At times it looked as if Dunc might even take...