Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked through a U.S. company's command post, one of them with a flashlight in his hand. "Douse that light," snarled a U.S. sergeant major, at the same time noticing that the offender was wearing black pajamas and carrying a Chinese AK-47 gun. But the group kept right on walking, and it was several startled seconds before everybody started firing. Four of the Viet Cong were captured, one by a young lieutenant who hit him with a football body block and a right to the jaw. Later that same night, the Viet Cong massed among the trees...
...turned over to the U.S.O.; hot-dog stands and coffee bars were set up, and seats were ripped out to make room for bowling alleys. Only a decision by the newly founded Roosevelt University to take over the dilapidated building in 1946 and use it for its home kept the Auditorium standing...
...moment, however, the strike was not really over. Despite the national settlement, such local issues as overtime and work conditions kept a number of assembly and parts plants closed down, and production was not expected to get into full swing until some time this week...
Founder Blazer kept his company flexible, bragged that an Ashland refinery could be converted from one kind of refining to another "by supper-time." He also kept his work force lean, refused to hire his own nephew after Rex Blazer graduated from the University of Illinois ('28). "If you are as good as you think you are," said Uncle Paul, "you won't get any credit for it because you are my nephew. If you aren't that good, I'll have to fire you, and the family already has enough trouble." Paul Blazer loaned...
...copydesk tradition, relying heavily on choice clips and spicy quotes. He also does his duty by psychology and suggests that the fatherless Otero's entire life may not have been so much a triumphant romp as a protest against the man who raped her. If so, she certainly kept on protesting-and protesting. She had her last lover, it has been said, at 60. A compulsive gambler, she had lost her entire fortune by 1926 at the casino at Monte Carlo. She died only two years ago, at 96, in Nice, poor, solitary, devoutly religious, and apparently at peace...