Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that, the nervous Ford operatives could relax. Despite hints of hidden grenades, no real surprise had been sprung by the Reagan strategists. Griffin had not even had to use the store of white caps he had kept in reserve in case the Reaganites flooded the floor with red and yellow hats to confuse the Ford floor operation. Nor had the Reagan plotters ever been able to unleash their "S.T.P." operation, in which any ruling from the chair that seemed unfair would be challenged by a "storm the podium" deluge of fist-waving protests and jeers, in an effort...
Back in Washington, too, the President has kept in close touch with his past, athletic and otherwise. He meets regularly with cronies from Grand Rapids and Capitol Hill, and on July 31, he took time out from the slogging quest for delegates to give a luncheon reunion for his law school Phi Delta Phi fraternity brothers. After rising at 6 o'clock, he pedals the equivalent of a mile astride a stationary bicycle upstairs in the White House, and he ends the working day by swimming 22 laps, or one-quarter mile, in the pool behind the West Wing...
East Germany's rise to international respectability has embittered and demoralized the West Berliners who remain stranded 110 miles from the nearest Western border, and who are exposed daily to Communist pressures that sporadically explode into major incidents. Although kept alive by massive infusions of money from Bonn, West Berlin is languishing. Once a vibrant citadel, it has acquired a glum and shabby look. Even the famous Kurfurstendamm has only about six blocks of tourist-attracting brightness, and the rest looks run down and dreary...
Along with the non sequiturs, Stein does provide a theme-women's rights and changing relations between the sexes-that seems more pertinent today than in 1947, when the opera was written. Over the years, performances at colleges and a variety of theaters have kept it alive. But only with the Santa Fe Opera's Bicentennial salute did The Mother of Us All get an extravagant production in the tradition of vintage musicals...
...Hays, 65, decided to head for the exits last week. "With a heavy heart," the Ohio Democrat announced his withdrawal from the race for a 15th term in the House. The Delilah in his downfall was, of course, Elizabeth Ray, 33, who disclosed last May that she had been kept on the Congressman's payroll as a clerk but had served mostly as his mistress. In June, Hays entered a hospital in Barnesville, Ohio, suffering from an overdose of drugs, and shortly thereafter he was stripped of his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. Now facing probes...