Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exeter (760) are the biggest nonmilitary boarding schools in the U.S. They are already national: Andover has boys from 44 states. Exeter from 42. They try to be public by breaking down the barriers of tuition, by striving to find poor boys with rich minds. Yet because they retain high standards and cannot open their doors to everyone, they remain elite schools for gifted boys of a sturdy, stable kind...
...resistance of taking like too seriously. We've done a lot of work in maximum security prisons. We and the prisoners have been convinved that there are wider possibilities in life that the game of cops and robbers. But it's hard for a convict to retain the serious goals he may have attained for moments through drugs; it's hard to get outside the game...
Harvard will have to fight off M.I.T. and an always powerful Coast Guard crew tomorrow to retain the Walter C. Wood trophy. The Crimson came from behind last year to capture the event, but the victory was made possible only when M.I.T. and Coast Guard canceled each other out in a two-way dogfight...
According to Martin the texts will retain the same general approach and content, although several specific changes will be made. He plans to re-write two-thirds of "L and R," in an attempt to make The Logic and Rhetoric of Exposition "meaningful for students who have had no training in logic...
...models had been-for AMC-extensively changed. The company's American has new, flowing lines that make it look longer and lower than its boxy predecessor (though it is an unchanged 173 in. long). AMC's Ambassador and Classic models have also been given modern lines that retain only vestigial traces of their traditional, safe-for-auntie appearance. The company has even yielded to pizazz: the new models can be had with all the bucket seats, consoles and five-speed stick shifts that a buyer could crave...