Word: kept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they got little help from either Steelworker President Dave McDonald or Steel Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. With nearly 90% of the nation's steelmaking capacity idled since mid-July, with layoffs spreading rapidly through the economy as manufacturers shut down for lack of steel (see BUSINESS), McDonald kept spouting purple rhetoric, Cooper kept spouting dun-grey generalities. Said Chairman Taylor at one of the sessions: "It's very distressing at this stage that we are still having trouble defining issues...
Grandly ignoring the incident, Moscow propagandists kept right on oozing words about the "spirit of Camp David," which, they said, Nikita Khrushchev had created...
Young men in Moslem Pakistan have a thin time of it. In many parts of the country, women are still kept in purdah, and before marriage Pakistani boys seldom meet a female who is not a close relative. With rare exceptions there is no teen-age dating, there are no mixed parties, and the sexes are segregated through grade and high school. But at Karachi University, nearly 5,000 of the 16,000 students are girls-emancipated girls who no longer hide beneath the traditional sack-like burka that shrouds devout Moslem women from head...
Crimson ace Jed Fitzgerald showed no signs of the leg injury that kept him from practice this week as he ran a close second to undefeated Dartmouth star Tom Larris...
Because of its sentimental value to the Band and because it signifies Harvard's pride in its Band, the drum is always a target for students from rival colleges. It is kept securely in the Band room, especially when certain teams come to town, but on the field, it's open to attack...