Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the union's executive board accused him of bringing his beloved Woodworkers "into discredit," fired him despite an appeal from his $1,700-a-year job, said he could hold no union job for ten months. Kennedy said he had kept his hand in at carpentering, but feared no one would hire him; he had a brother and a widowed mother to support. Said he truculently: "I am convinced that my dismissal is part of the campaign against the Communists...
When the war began going against the Japanese, Negishi's bubble burst. Heavy Allied bombardments smashed most of his factory equipment. By war's end, the Negishi Manufacturing Co. was reduced to one dilapidated repair shop. For a while Negishi kept on trying to find orders. But times were bad. He grew disgusted, retired to his country inn in Chiba, where he found pleasant company in the inn's manager, a lissome 23-year-old girl...
Outside the city, the quake shook down farmhouses and whole hamlets. Landslides wiped out roads, dammed streams and rivers. By nightfall tragic processions of Indians carrying rude coffins had formed on the roads outside Ambato. All along the way, other Indians with lighted candles kept vigil beside the dead for whom coffins had still to be made...
...little factory, then called for what he needed. Businessmen donated steel barrels and alcohol drums, plywood, motors and parts from vacuum cleaners, small crankshafts from outboard motors. Employees volunteered their labor and worked all night. After ten hours the lung was ready for Rue Steel. The mechanical minutemen kept on, making seven more, and Reichart drew blueprints from which any small-town machine shop could put together an emergency lung...
...which criticism doesn't exist . . . The only way you can get a really honest opinion of your work is to get in front of an audience that pays to see you. Then you know in a minute if you're bad." Among the players who have kept the audiences paying for Broadway revivals: Eve Arden, Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, Sylvia Sidney, Reginald Denny, Jane Cowl Ann Harding, Laraine Day, Martha Scott the late Dame May Whitty...