Word: kept
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Many very Greek things are maintained in this play. Instrumental music is supplied by a single flutist, Vivian Ducat, as was done in Athens. There are no set changes and scenery is kept to a minimum. Most importantly, the language is maintained so that when we hear a rush of flowing Greek words, we know instinctively what they mean in a way that could not be reproduced by any other words...
Shapiro said that he has kept the department and Dean Rosovsky informed of his intentions to seek a transfer from the beginning of the long process. The California Board of Regents approved his appointment in a regular meeting last month...
...practical accommodation was reached. Italy was granted provisional control over the northern section of the 287-sq.-mi. territory. Called Zone A, it included the city of Trieste (pop. 270,000), which is predominantly Italian but has a large Slovene minority. The rest of the area, Zone B, was kept provisionally under Yugoslav control...
Black on White. Summerlin made his discovery in 1969, while working at Stanford University and treating burn victims by grafting skin from other parts of their bodies onto the injured areas. He had learned from earlier experience that skin taken from a burn victim and kept in culture for up to three months could be successfully grafted back onto its donor-despite its decomposed appearance. But a chance experiment showed that it could also be grafted onto an unrelated recipient. While grafting skin back onto a black man, Summerlin noticed that he also had a piece of cultured white skin...
Waist-deep snow kept the crashed Fairchild almost invisible from the air and made escape from the mountain impossible. For more than a week, the little band lived on a daily ration of a square of chocolate and a cup of wine. Eventually, as both food and hope dwindled, the survivors reached a decision that any well-fed reader will find difficult to judge. They began to eat the flesh of their dead companions. The grisly diet enabled 16 of them to sustain life for 70 days, until the snows had melted enough for two of the party...