Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ellmann said in March he left Harvard in 1951 because he "had no clear assurance that I would be kept on, so I decided to try another college...
...seem that the new world order was complete. Despite incursions into such countries as Haiti, Nicaragua, and, almost, into Mexico, a series of international conferences in the 1920s appeared to have kept even truly prospective threats such as Japan in line. The Depression drastically intensified governments' awareness of the economic imperatives of foreign policy, producing the struggle which led to World War II and eventually to the current structure of international capitalism...
...annually. Pointing his finger at me, Sau said emphatically that it was the duty of American taxpayers to put pressure on Nixon to stop the aid. The thought occurred that Thieu might let the prisoners starve to death if the United States stopped its aid, but I kept my thoughts to myself...
...single thing for which he had a gift, besides that of pulling rugs out from under his opponent, it was for a kind of manipulation of conditions so that the problem or the solution seemed fresh to the point of being raw. He had, for example, carefully kept his grandson dancing on a string of unease over this guide boat. On the one hand, he wanted it to be as vivid as only uncertainty could make it; and, on the other, he could not resist the dicey gaming around, the spirals of manipulation that were the actual texture...
Ever since the end of the second world war, the dizzying pace of technological advance has kept Americans just slightly off balance. The race to be the first one on the block to own this new supercharged custom cruiser or that new space-age color television set has tuckered this country...