Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this campaign. In addition to saying that Crane's State Lottery is spending more money on itself ($13 million) than it is sending back to the cities and towns ($12 million), Crampton has accused Crane of mismanaging the state treasury bureaucracy into obsolescence. He says Crane hasn't kept up with automation, and that consequently, "the state is losing $5-8 million annually by running its treasury like an old Charles Dickens counting house...
...amazing how Gerald Ford would have managed the approval of the Panama Canal treaty more quickly, ended the Turkish arms embargo and sold planes to Saudi Arabia and, at the same time, would have moved ahead with a modest tax cut, kept the B-l bomber, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile and designed an energy policy to encourage new oil exploration and alternate sources without taxing them. All he needed was four more years. It seems that the poor little country boy from Plains, Ga., has managed to get some things accomplished without previous...
...spiritual and political leader of Iran's 32 million Shi'ite Muslims, who comprise 93% of the population. A longtime opponent of the Shah, Khomeini was exiled in 1963 following violent demonstrations against the Shah's land reforms. Two weeks ago, he was expelled from Iraq, where he had kept his headquarters and served as a catalyst to the opposition against the Shah. He is now temporarily residing in France...
...last week he completed his most extensive tour in years. Dylan continues on a three-month barnstorming blitz, playing St. Paul in his home territory of Minnesota this week. Earlier both converged on New York City at the same time. Young played to wildly partisan crowds, while Dylan kept his audience at arm's length and flummoxed even the aficionados. The inevitable result of this near collision on what Young calls "the human highway" has been Dylan's getting drubbed with his disciple's reputation...
...hard to beat for reckless honesty and his own kind of compound romanticism, which can veer sharply from sentimental to sulfuric at the bend of a lyric. Dylan both mocked and gloried in his informal ordination as a generation's prophet. Young, fully as ambitious in his music, kept closer to the ground than Dylan and sneaked into rock's pantheon like a highwayman...