Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After news of the enemy attacks reached Washington, Johnson kept constant alert, pouncing on more than 25 reports that were rushed to him through the evening and night. At 5 a.m., he was up for a briefing in the basement Situation Room of the White House. Before breakfast, he was on the phone twice to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "He has a mental alarm clock," said Presidential Press Secretary George Christian. "He's working like a dog, keeping tabs on everything...
...president theoretically had most of these powers under the old constitution, but the unsystematic decision-making process kept his hands tied. The new constitution's efficiency, some Cabinet members worry, may allow one man too much power over appointments and programs. The Cabinet does have some restraining power, however; if a majority of its members disagree with an executive decision, it may tell the Graduate Secretary to assemble a judiciary committee. This committee, consisting of Cabinet members, officers, and Faculty, with no faction in majority, is to make the final decision...
...then saddle up and ride to the watchtower where "Princess kept the view"--an image like the scene in Ivan the Terrible in which Ivan, in seclusion, is begged to return. (Eisenstein too was a master of defamiliarization...
...which cash registers at key discount stores keep itemized sales records on tape for processing by a Manhattan computer. When stocks run low on a particular item, the computer automatically reorders it from the manufacturer. Store personnel can thus be freed from time-consuming inventory taking, and shelves are kept supplied for a brisk, six-times-yearly stock turnover, compared with three times for department stores...
Similarly, the reader of nonfiction in 1922 kept ahead of the novel nut. H. G. Wells's The Outline of History and Hendrik Willem Van Loon's The Story of Mankind led the nonfiction list that year. The top novel was If Winter Comes, by the leading bleeder of the year, A.S.M. Hutchinson, whose This Freedom was No. 7, followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell...