Word: kept
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Americans usually learn of the agency's covert actions only when they fail so spectacularly that they cannot be kept secret. Examples: the U-2 incident in 1960, when the Soviets shot down the spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers; the CIA-directed invasion of Cuba in 1961; the Chilean operation. Over the years, there were successes for the CIA as well: the 1953 coup that deposed Premier Mohammed Mossadegh (who had nationalized a British-owned oil company and was believed to be in league with Iran's Communist Party) and kept pro-American Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi...
Days of 1945-1951, translated by Athan Anagnostopoulos, is excerpted from a journal that George Seferis kept throughout most of his life. At one point in the diary, he noted that "In essence, the poet has one theme: his live body," and in this record of six years, Seferis opens his self--as it was distilled into the poems he wrote, with all of its senses--to view...
...kept the Yankees within a half game of the Baltimore Orioles, as the Birds rallied for three runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Detroit Tigers, 5-4. The loss left the Red Sox with little more than mathematical possibilities...
Booth is still a question mark, as an injury sidelined him during last Saturday's scrimmage against UMass. Another headache for Ford has been the condition of junior back Steve Hines, who has been kept out of action with torn ligaments in his knee. Hines was told on Friday he should not see action for another two weeks...
...starting gun sounded, both boats were over early and the Cross took longer to return and restart. The challenger could never catch up and Courageous just kept increasing the lead on the hapless Australians. After the novelty of watching the graceful boats wore off, the race became rather boring. The voice of Hoyt began to lose some of its enthusiasm. "...And the Southern Cross is putting up the same old white bag..." he reported blandly as the Aussies set their white spinmaker after rounding the weather mark well behind the defender...