Word: kept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...score of fire trucks, dozens of ambulances and police cars, all with their red lights flashing, took up their stations along Runway 13 (pointing 130° southeast), toward the end of its 11,200-ft. stretch. Orbiting above the field, Flight 102's Pilot Edward Sommers, 44, kept checking with the tower for wind direction and the state of preparations for his landing. (Meanwhile, stewardesses served dinner to the remarkably hungry passengers.) At Pilot Sommers' request, Idlewild operations sent out fire trucks to lay down a 4-in. pillow of foam on the last...
...Labor Party is over," laments one working-class ex-minister. Bustling about the country with the air of a don doing his best to be folksy, Gaitskell has not been able to match Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's glamor, but he has earned solid respect. He has kept his party fully behind NATO and, though infatuated with the notion of disengagement, has also kept his party behind the allied position in Berlin...
...Addison's Disease. In 1947 he became Presbyterian's medical service director, in the same year Columbia's chief medical professor. No narrow specialist (he belongs to the American Philosophical Society), Loeb is a literate physician whose adroit editing for the last twelve years has kept Cecil's Textbook of Medicine the bible of U.S. medical students...
...Takada kept Ohishi in the hospital for a month on trichomycin, a homegrown Japanese antibiotic. Satisfied that Candida had been knocked out, he fed Ohishi test meals of starchy foods. Ohishi stayed stone sober, hopes that his built-in moonshine plant will remain shut down...
...fleets of this fierce Genoese had many times confirmed his native city as master of the Mediterranean. Doria ships also helped Emperor Charles V in his struggles to win Italy. Charles rewarded him with a huge mastiff - and then a princedom "for the dog to run in." The admiral kept his palace staff hopping to the tune of bosun's pipes, once exercised his princely humor by order ing all his silver flung into the sea at a banquet's end. Afterwards Andrea Doria hauled his silver up again, in nets previously spread for the purpose...