Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even weirder, of course, was their uniform-an affront to starched red coat propriety from the tops of their bearskin hats to the tips of their famous diamond-patterned Argyll stockings. In fact, these fineries, plus the tartan kilt, so effectively kept Englishmen from signing on with the regiment that Britain's adjutant-general at one point ordered it to adopt a uniform less "objectionable to the natives of South Britain...
With 32 depositor nations among its members, the Manila-based Asian Development Bank, in the 18 months of its lifetime, has sought to prove its own stability in an area of economic turmoil. Its funds - partly kept on demand in 44 world banks-- earned interest of $4.5 million in 1967 while a multitude of possible investments were being cautiously evaluated. "We are new boys in this business," says Bank President Takeshi Watanabe, 62, of Japan, "and we must be sure of what we are doing...
...chances are that he meant this ominous burden for both. Julian obliged by becoming a distinguished biologist and scientific humanist. Aldous came equipped to be clever: his head was so big it kept him from walking until he was two. By the age of nine, he already struck others as "aloof and secretly critical...
...Square and up the street to Brigham's going into every store; since they are nearly all air-conditioned. He decided that the Cambridge Trust Company had the best air-conditioning. He also liked Crimson Travel, but it was so small there he could not be inconspicuous and they kept asking him where he wanted...
Thus the General, played by Ronald Hunter, is kept fulminating for the whole time at a steady roar--the wit of so many of his lines gets lost in the over-blown bustle. This is not the actor's fault but follows from the director's faulty conception of the play. Hunter is more controlled in the scene (in both senses of the word) with his bedridden wife (Sheila Hart...