Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course they didn't make it. Chuck kept his foot on the gas, slid backwards into the cliff, totalled the car and walked away from it. But Elvin lost his nerve, hit the brakes, couldn't make the turn, went headfirst into a stationwagon full of people coming up the river from Charleston. Two people got killed, Elvin one of them. I was the first to get to the car, and as soon as I did it blew...
...pressures. It is also possible that the KCIA itself, a labyrinth with chambers of both cruelty and sophistication, might itself agree to grants with few strings, much as, apparently, in the case of Tongsun Park, whose scattering of largesse rarely accompanied intensive political demands. Perhaps, even, the KCIA kept its hands off this particular grant. We shall not know for sure until the investigation requested has been completed...
...political feat. When he was walking the icy streets of New Hampshire last January, as many as 40% of the local people did not even know who he was. He occupied no political office; his one term as Georgia's Governor had ended in January 1975, and state law kept him from running again. He was the typical outsider, and it was an axiom of politics that outsiders?particularly those from the South?went nowhere nationally...
...Batteries of writers and directors were exhausted before the present version was put together under-or perhaps around-Director Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War). Yet, what the serious quarterlies call "the authorship" of A Star Is Born is unclear. Responsibility must surely rest with Streisand and Peters, who kept hold of the creative clout...
Actually, the Woodstein of Koreagate is no stranger to Page One. Last year Cheshire won a wall full of journalism awards for her disclosures that Pat Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and lesser public figures had kept millions of dollars' worth of gifts from foreign governments, in violation of a 1966 statute. A few years earlier, Cheshire investigated the $1 million worth of antiques donated by wealthy Americans to help Jacqueline Kennedy refurbish the White House: to Jackie's embarrassment, a seven-article series listed the age, origin, donor and occasionally dubious value of each piece. That prying brought...