Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerns itself with examining something tangible--humans--by means of a very common human device--observation. Mead had no practical training before venturing into the field. Basically she did little more than what all of us are capable of doing if we set our minds to it: she kept her eyes and ears open. Yet her results were as refreshing, as interesting and as variable as any offered by other anthropologists...
Only Anne Sullivan's first in the two-mile run, and Sarah Linsley and Martha Clabby's 2-3 finish in the 880 kept things respectable...
Faster reaction time. U.S. units on the central front no longer have to spend hours picking up and loading ammunition after receiving warning of an attack. Instead, a large portion of U.S. combat vehicles and aircraft are kept permanently loaded, even though this increases the risk of accidents. At the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment's base in Fulda, for example, helicopters, tanks, armored personnel carriers and scout cars are fully armed and lined up for swift departure. Says Colonel Robert Sunell, the regiment's commander: "I won't tell you how fast I can move this regiment...
...week's end Teng and Hua made a public show of unity by jointly appearing at a meeting of the athletes who will represent China in the upcoming Asian Games in Bangkok. New wall posters appeared warning that if "bad eggs" who attacked the legacy of Mao kept it up, someone would "smash your dog heads." Still, from some of Teng's cryptic phrases, China experts speculated that the murky struggles within the party leadership would be carried forward to a meeting of the 201-member Central Committee later this month. That event-unless Teng and his colleagues...
...Chernenko's thoughts have ever differed from Brezhnev's on any issue, he has kept quiet about it; one Western diplomat in Moscow refers to him as Brezhnev's "paper shuffler." Nonetheless, Chernenko now ranks fourth in the party hierarchy, after Brezhnev, Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 76, and Central Committee Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, 72. Chernenko now must be considered as a possible successor to his patron, or at least as a behind-the-curtain bossmaker in a post-Brezhnev...