Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis also demonstrated the error of the myth that Nixon, aided by me, exercised an octopus-like grip over a Government that was kept in ignorance of our activities. The reality was the opposite of the folklore: not widening White House dominance but bitter departmental rearguard resistance; not clear-cut directives but elliptical maneuvers to keep open options; not the inability of the agencies to present their
...quirky sexual relationships of the group are never presented as anything less than humane and pleasant. Niceness, however, does not quite cover the fact that the Jamet character is kept in ignorance of her true situation and, in her innocence, exploited. There is also some rather ugly background information that leads one to believe that Housekeeper Frey may be a good deal more psychotic in his motivations than the movie cares to admit openly, while his male companion may be somewhat more than charmingly antisocial in some of his. The movie is, finally, quite dishonest: an antibourgeois tract that...
...defense kept within reach during the first half as sacks and penalties left the offense in neutral. Cornell opened the scoring after a stalled drive and a holding scoring in the half, booming 47- and 42yd. its own 21. Duke Millard's punt was blocked by the charging Big Red line and bounded into the endzone where Kent Craven grabbed it for the touchdown...
...last three years, they've come to Boston Garden almost every night, come to jeer Curtis Rowe and Sidney Wicks and to watch Celtics. They've kept coming because its the only show in town for a basketball fan, and because they've always come, and at the very least they can watch great players wearing opposing unifroms destroy the listless Celts...
...mainly they kept returning because Celtics basketball is an organized religion, with 13 green-and-white icons hanging from the Garden roof and a list of saints, identified only by the kelly-green number that they once wore, dangling from the skylights. And in this dimlylit, age-crusted catacomb, the faithful wait for the NCAA to part with a titanic saviour, someone with arms long enough and stats big enough to rescue the team. After all, except for the last few years the Celtics have always been basketball's chosen people: you can forgive their fans for hoping...