Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week's Education section on the ragged state of the English language in the U.S., Senior Writer Lance Morrow spent two months off and on compiling examples of mangled prose from such varied sources as the Congressional Record, high school compositions and sociological journals. Morrow also kept a notebook - which swelled to 60 pages - of tortured usages found in everyday reading, television watching and conversation. In some ways, it was a chastening exercise. Morrow found that he frequently sinned, most often in using careless conversational "filler" phrases like "you know" and "well, ah." Colleagues who have chatted with...
...peace accord between Israel and Egypt (see THE WORLD). He called together his top aides for a conference on oil prices, and met with White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld to affix the presidential signature to routine bills and appointments. But for the most part. Ford kept himself a chip shot away from the world's problems...
...Bronfman II was buried in a box with a meager ten-day supply of air and water steadily running out. He had been kidnaped, and the kidnapers had demanded a ransom of $4.6 million, the highest ever asked in the U.S. Frantically the family tried to comply, but hitches kept developing. The wait seemed interminable...
...sleeping little at night. Young Adam, described as especially fond of his brother, tried to entice others into Monopoly games to pass the anguished hours. A score of FBI agents arrived at the estate to advise the family and monitor events. Up to 50 reporters and photographers kept vigil at the gates. Helicopters came and went, each flight sending rumors through the ranks of the watching press...
...says Gold, 4,000 to 5,000 documents containing coliform counts on batches of ice cream were destroyed. Investigators nonetheless maintain that they discovered the plant kept two sets of quality-control records: a false one to show state inspectors and an elaborately coded secret set containing true bacteria counts for the company's own use. The secret books showed coliform counts on some batches of ice cream 200 times as high as the law allows. Worse, many other batches were labeled TNTC -meaning that the bacteria were Too Numerous To Count...