Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your excellent article ended with the open question "Can De Gaulle once again save France-this time from himself?" I sincerely believe he cannot, because the general has kept the reins of government too tight for the French people. They have no more respect for him, only disappointment and bitterness. This has led to hatred and anarchy, which cannot be stopped any more because it has gone too far. He did very much for France and for the world but he made one big mistake: he always thought of France, never of the French people...
...council majority have made sure that the voters will not forget it. During a hearing on a routine renewal of the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, Crane sharply questioned the group's director about the costs of its work, and noded approvingly when he was assured that overhead was kept below ten per cent of project costs. At another hearing--this one with Justin M. Gray, the city manager's assistant for Community Development Crane wanted to know when a Federal grant would come through for a playground in East Cambridge. "You know, there are still some people in this city...
Nevertheless, staff studies are kept within the mold of academic enterprise. Says Rodwin, "When (the Joint Center) takes on a practical assignment it does so because the study has scholarly and practical significance beyond the particular case...
...concerned more with undergraduate education than with speaking tours. The appointment of McGeorge Bundy as dean--a candidate apparently urged upon Pusey by the outgoing Buck--made it difficult for the new president to influence College matters. Fund drives and other external enterprises, suited primarily to presidential attention, also kept Pusey form taking a close hand in the College...
Trans-Europ Express is a spoof of the spoof-suspense films presented in the Robbe-Grillet manner-which is to say that plot, character and motivation are kept at considerably more than arm's length. Strictly speaking, there are no characters at all, except Author-Director Robbe-Grillet, Producer Samy Helfon and a female assistant, played by Robbe-Grillet's wife Catherine. These three gather in a compartment of the Trans-Europ Express en route from Paris to Antwerp...