Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hierarchy. A young junior exec on the scene at the time, I was recruited to give a five-minute performance under green grease paint, but without rehearsal or direction. It was the golden opportunity for an aspiring actor, but I flunked it completely because of stage fright. Mr. Sarnoff kept me in the doghouse from then...
David Werp, 28, a market researcher, drove 100 miles from Sioux City to Omaha in hopes of becoming an AID aide. "I've wanted to do something for my country since I was a kid," said Werp, who has a physical disability that kept him out of military service. Volunteers must meet demanding professional requirements, pass stringent medical tests and undergo a security check. The toughest hurdle is a linguistic-aptitude test, aimed at gauging their ability to learn the six-tone Vietnamese tongue, that includes memorizing a string of Kurdish words. "Musicians do well on it," says Simpson...
John Ballantyne, one of three Harvard signal-callers, kept the ball for three running plays, and handed once to Lou Sardonis, and Harvard was down to the 12 as the third quarter ended...
Gary Singleterry leaned back on a table in the visitors' dressing room at Holy Cross yesterday, his face racked with pain as a doctor set the broken bone in his left leg. The blond freshman punter had almost singlehandedly kept the Crimson alive in the first half, but now he was out for the season--the victim of a roughing-the-kicker tackle in the third quarter...
...wasn't great defense that kept the first-half score down to nothing: it was mostly sloppy backfield play and dropped or poorly-thrown passes by both sides...