Word: kept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Armed Services Committee kept gallantly silent in public while trying to figure out in private what to do about a delicate problem of senatorial courtesy and chivalry. The problem: a campaign by Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith, the Senate's only lady member, to block a fourth star for Air Force Lieut. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., named last month to command the Pacific Air Forces. The Smith-O'Donnell feud started two years ago, when Senator Smith, annoyed at the Air Force's failure to promote her administrative assistant from colonel to brigadier...
...averaging 6.26%, effective July 1. At the same time, the New Haven last year cut its equipment-maintenance costs by nearly $4,000,000, its ways-and-structures maintenance by nearly $2,000,000 (the New Haven says partly because of improved methods). The results of using aging, ill-kept equipment are clear for all to see and suffer: the latest monthly figures show that no fewer than 243 New Haven commuter trains ran late in April (for that same month, only 54 Long Island trains were late). And that, by any possible standard, is a hell...
...down with them and thereafter began an intensive study of race relations, which he kept up at the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ga., where he went 6½ years ago. In 1957 and 1958 he was chosen to draft the Southern Presbyterian reports on race, and they were noted as the most liberal statements on the subject to have been issued by a predominantly Southern denomination...
...Southern Baptist. Dr. Blake Smith, pastor of the University Baptist Church of Austin, Texas, whose topic was the sorest subject in Northern Baptism -the "invasion" by Southern Baptists (membership: 8,956,756) of what the American Baptists (membership: 1,536,276) regard as their territory. The convention press was kept busy running off 3,000 copies of his speech, which sold at 10? each...
...nothing; suggestions are made of mass hysteria. The plague spreads; old scoffers answer their phones, hear the message, but shut it out when they can, determined to caper out their danse macabre till they drop. At their best, which of course is their worst, they behave like characters somehow kept alive after the last page of a Waugh novel and unearthed 40 years later...