Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Tribune, filled a ten-inch-square brass box with quaint mementos of her era and saw the box sealed within the cornerstone of the Tribune's new headquarters in Lower Manhattan. When that building was demolished in 1968, the time capsule was found and kept by the wrecker until late last year, when he brought it to a dealer to sell. The solid brass exterior had worn extremely well over a full century. Inside, its contents were a modest guide to some aspects of a vanished era: a department of public works report on the city sewer...
...Newsmen are delighted by his habit of returning their calls, no matter how late he has been working, and insisting that his staff do the same. Right at the start, Simon promised to meet with newsmen every Thursday to answer any questions that they might ask. He has rigorously kept the pledge, to the horror of some Administration p.r. men, who insist that no bureaucrat can stand that much exposure...
...boxed by tanks with cannons uncovered and Grenadier Guards in battle kit. Rome's Ciampino had a sandbagged machine gun nest atop its control tower manned by helmeted carabinieri. Armed Jeeps escorted aircraft along the runways of Orly outside Paris, while 850 flics and special riot troopers kept suspicious eyes on passenger traffic inside the terminal. Everywhere from Amsterdam to Athens there were gun-toting guards and behind them, plainclothes marksmen...
...KEPT ALIVE by a strict diet of cool mountain water and stuffed cabbages, the sorely missed 2000 year-old man was dusted off last summer to share with us his wisdom and his constipation. Thirteen years older, and no wiser for it, he has cut his first record in a decade: 2000 and Thirteen. Sadly, the wizened Jewish sage, created by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, is not aging as gracefully as his old material...
...waling up together throughout the show to take pictures of the performers and now when the people saw Donna Fargo bend down to give them a better shot they all started coming up too with their Instamatics and there were flash cubes going off right and left while she kept singing and bending down...