Word: kept
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EDDIE NELOY longed to be a jockey, but he grew up to be 6-ft. 2-in. tall, weighing 220 Ibs. So he kept his feet on the ground and became the most successful horse trainer in the U.S. See SPORT...
...danger of tumbling down. Begun in 1793, the sandstone edifice has 21 cracks running down its full 105-ft. height, and more than 1,000 smaller cracks zigzagging crazily in every direction. The front portico is held up only by wrought-iron straps, and in three major areas is kept from buckling by impromptu wooden supports. So many records and books-including 300 copies each of the 17,000 bills introduced in the House this year-are stored in the Capitol attic above the west front that the old walls are under a downward pressure of an estimated...
...incomplete had been the reconciliation between Eleanor and Franklin after their marriage was threatened, now he was hers to serve and to save." Nonetheless, F.D.R. and Lucy were to be "attached by ties of deep and unbroken affection to the day he died." By all accounts, F.D.R. thereafter kept in frequent contact with Lucy. For example, says Daniels, he "quietly arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration" in 1933. He also visited the Rutherfurds' stately winter home in Aiken, S.C., several times, and the Rutherfurds called at the White House. Daniels...
...police district failed to report 5,000 complaints in 1951. The new FBI report itself warns readers to discount this year's Baltimore figures, which show a 71% crime increase from 1964 to 1965. Reason: more accurate reporting in 1965, compared with previous years when Baltimore cops kept the peace largely by not tallying a great many crimes...
Reston deals with several practical problems which have kept the papers from turning their resources toward constructive analysis. First, news analysis has to compete with hard news for prominent space in the paper. Although it is true that Americans are in general more interested in what is happening than why it happened, Reston feels that it is the duty of the press to shift the emphasis toward the latter. He thinks that the major newspapers in the big cities could probably be convinced to allow for a little more educating and a little less reporting...