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Word: kept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening night audience, which included such motley elements as a girl dressed in a satin bedspread designed to look a mini-skirt, and another who kept explaining to her boy friend that South Orange, N.J., was a suburban area and not part of a city, enjoyed the show. The success of Pym and his cast in making this fable of Grania more than just a fable suggests that you will...

Author: By D.c. Fitzgerald, | Title: Grania | 3/9/1968 | See Source »

...reserves, call up the National Guard, increase the draft, and put the economy on a full war footing-all unpleasant options in an election year. Withholding the troops, on the other hand, could force the U.S. to abandon for good the tactics of flexibility and mobility that long kept the enemy off balance, and shift instead to a static, enclave-style stance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Clifford Takes Over | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...even then the newcomer will probably have to share his bed with another patient or sleep on the floor. Coffins lie unburied for days because of a lack of gravediggers. Practically all the schools are still closed, and children either clog the streets while at play or are kept indoors by nervous, anxious parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Saigon Under Siege | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...nearly every Polish high school, its appearance on the Warsaw stage a few weeks ago caused an uproar. When audiences laughed too loudly at the anti-Russian lines, the government's censors closed down the whole production. In recent weeks they have also closed two other plays and kept from circulation the most promising Polish movie of the year, a surrealistic comedy on politics called Hands Up. Also kept from circulation was Critic Janusz Szpotanski, 34, author of a musical satire, The Silent and the Honkers, that caricatured some Polish public figures, including Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. After listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Too Many Laughs | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...SECOND high school, I kept up some social life by joining all the activities around. I didn't get high up in any of them cause I didn't do much work--it was just a way to keep myself busy. I worked after school until 5:30 or 7:30 or 8:30 and Friday and Saturday nights I had another job. My real activities were school in the daytime, work in the afternoon and nights on weekends, and family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The True Story of a Disenchanted But Not Hung-Up Son of Harvard | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

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