Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year or more passed. My son Sergei, who's an engineer himself, had something to do with missiles and kept me informed on how the testing program was going. He also followed American publications closely. One day, to my surprise and delight, he told me that he'd read in some American journal that the U.S. had begun to replace launching pads with silos...
...political ideology in his columns. As an "alternative voice" in a conservative area, he is regularly on the liberal counterattack. But he is a believer in private enterprise, an occasional defender of President Nixon, both before and after Watergate, and a fan of Evangelist Oral Roberts. Troy scorns the "kept" press in his state. "It reacts to the jingle of the cash register," he charges. "I'd be out of business if the other papers were doing their job." Few of Troy's friends-and none of his enemies-think that the iconoclastic editor would acknowledge that situation...
Because of the wide gap between white-and blue-collar feminism, some union women believe that the two should be kept apart. Says Unionist Wolfgang: "Sisters cannot unify solely because they are women. We have to look at class rather than sex." Olga Madar, international vice president of the United Auto Workers and newly appointed president of the CLUW, disagrees: "For the first time women workers have united to speak out against sexual discrimination. At the same time union women bring real, down-to-earth issues to the feminist movement. The blend is important...
...quit school to sign on as a cub reporter with a Bristol paper. Starting on the police beat, he was eventually reviewing films and plays. In retrospect, he says, "I didn't really enjoy it. I felt I was a critic by instinct, not by credentials. I kept thinking I only put into print what other people were saying in the bar during intermission." Nonetheless, he made amusing use of the experience later when he wrote The Real Inspector Hound (TIME, May 8, 1972), a caustic spoof of two rather addlepated drama critics flexing their cliches on an Agatha...
...Though Giles makes a fool of himself in public, he works stealthily behind the lines by befriending Marjorie and the children. While Adams is off researching and occasionally sharing the girl friend of an old Cambridge classmate, Giles and Marjorie become quite chummy. Just how far they go is kept calculatedly unclear by the author at the book's climax. In doing so, Bunting underscores the point that for Adams to be cuckolded by a social inferior is bad enough, but not to be sure may be even worse...