Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coca-Colonized? As the Foreign Ministers continued their talks in the Parrot Room of the French Foreign Ministry, Schuman grew increasingly nervous. With a foreign policy debate scheduled in the French Assembly next week which could easily topple France's shaky cabinet, he kept Premier Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed...
...minutes we heard an enormous splashing, and I looked behind to see another small boat, obviously leaking badly, following us with my faithful escort. One was rowing the boat while the two others bailed steadily. They kept just far enough away to allow me casting distance, sitting over their ankles in water...
Montreal has long kept a cautious eye on art in the raw. This time was no exception. When a photographer arrived at the jail to take a picture of Roussil's statue, the police dutifully draped a towel around the father's ample loins (see cut). But their hearts were not entirely in their work. Said one policeman: "There is nothing wrong with this. It is nature. Even the Vatican has pure physiques of this type...
...spite of the deploring, however, the Chicago Plan worked. Though free to stay away, students flocked to classes where no attendance records were kept and no grades given. Gradually, the Great Books were worked into the courses, until this year they are 75% of the reading for the B.A. It was not all that Hutchins could have wanted, but it was close-an education not of books about books, but one which places ideas over facts, firsthand knowledge over secondhand interpretations, theory over practice...
Ordinarily, such news would have set Wall Street's eager speculators grabbing for Olin's stock. But Olin's 56-year-old President John M. Olin, and Vice President Spencer T. Olin, 48, his brother, have prudently kept most of the 2,000,000 shares of unlisted common stock to themselves, their gross and profit a secret...