Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floors must be periodically vacuumed, and the dust collectors of ventilation systems emptied on a regular basis. Working clothes must be changed immediately before returning home to eliminate uncontrolled exposure. The ventilation systems required to cleanse and recirculate the plant atmospheres are often so elaborate that ceilings must be kept clean; two or three inches of asbestos dust may collect on them in a very short time. An operation so simple as shoveling old brake shoes into a disposal vehicle may present a considerable danger...
...Herbie kept up his commentary on the game, this time displaying a flair for the dramatic a la Cossell or maybe even Johnny Most. As Jim Thomas's throw from third went wildly out into right field in a close final inning, Herbie went into action...
...VICTORIAN society, madmen and children kept company. Warped personalities didn't fit into the rigidly cast adult mold, so insane people were relegated to the status of childhood, where mischievous imaginations were still tolerable. If the British Isles menaced people's minds as severely as one historian believed, the naive characters must have abounded. Michel Foucault observes...
...hallmarks of Gaullist politics as practiced by the late general was the building of an alliance of France's left and right under a national banner of pride and grandeur. For 16 years, that tactic kept the U.D.R. (Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic) Party of Charles de Gaulle in power. But now that the U.D.R. is in disarray after the elimination of Gaullist Jacques Chaban-Delmas in last week's first round of balloting for the presidency, the nation has fallen back into its traditional polarities, with Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, 48, representing...
Always fierce, competition to get into U.S. medical schools this year has reached unparalleled heights-and depths. The number of would-be physicians has increased enormously over the past decade, but medical school expansion has not kept pace. Some 41,000 applicants are fighting for a scant 14,400 places. At many universities, pre-med students are engaged in a sort of academic guerrilla war to assure not only higher grades for themselves but also lower grades for their competing classmates. The result is an unhealthy atmosphere that could hurt the quality of American medicine...