Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four in a row, grabbed their slim lead early in the second period when Jerry Galle spun off end on a reverse and ran ten yards to score. Except for this lone tally, Leverett's attack begged down despite fine running by Jim Wykoff and Fabian Bradbury, which often kept the Bunnies in Adams territory...
...Adams kept first place in the House football league yesterday afternoon by pounding out a 12-0 victory over the Dudley eleven. Across the sidelines Leverett won its third straight by edging winless Dunster...
They were playing only three nights a week; schoolwork kept them from doing more. Since July they had been packing fans into Van Nuys' elaborate, teenagers' Ciro's, the Dri-Nite Club, and making more than pocket money doing it (about $45 a week). By last week, they had spread out to playing one-nighters here & there, for fraternity dances and Hollywood high-lifers such as Columnist Jimmy Fidler. But the surest sign that they were really arriving was the hushed way the fans listened when the boys sat in with jazzbos like Drummer Zutty Singleton...
...hero of To Every Man a Penny is a determinedly kindly French cleric. Abbe Gaston's trouble was that he took Christ's teachings literally. In word, thought and deed he kept trying to walk in His steps, and kept getting his shins kicked for his pains. The reader meets him in his Paris parish in 1914 when he is 35 and hopeful, leaves him near-blind, buffeted but beatifically resigned just before Novelist Marshall lets his typewriter cool. In World War I he fights as an infantry soldier, becomes a wounded hero and learns the worldly lesson...
Gnawing Memories. In the beginning, says Author Smith, there was evil, and from it flowed the guilts that have kept the South in unhappy restlessness ever since. The evil, of course, was slavery -as visible as an overseer's lash. But the guilts are hidden and unprobed. "We have known guilt without understanding it, and there is no tie that binds men closer to the past and each other than that...