Word: unkept
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...plays the temperamental procuress with gratifying relish. Wonderfully French, Zsa Zsa Gabor sings and twitters her way through the role of Jane Avril, the toast of the Moulin Rouge. And Suzanne Flon, the woman who loves embittered Lautrec too late, is sadly appealing as one of the few unkept women in Paris...
Tempers Kept & Unkept. But the dispassionate air of inquiry had vanished. Partisan wrangle broke out. Republicans made their questions short speeches. Democrats retorted by producing past documents to show that the Republicans had rarely lifted a voice to protest U.S. policy steps when they were taken, and Connecticut's Brien McMahon, politicking for all he was worth, and joined by Maverick Republican Wayne Morse, demanded an investigation of the "China lobby."* Acheson coolly resisted most Democratic attempts to get him to concur in attacks on MacArthur or the Republicans...
...Advancing!" Like many a dictator before him, Mao tries to divert the minds of his people from his unkept promises by emphasizing "foreign encirclement." His press keeps up a din for the conquest of Formosa and Tibet...
...Unkept Promises. In that five-minute meeting, the life flickered out of a newspaper that had been a sometimes noble, often confused experiment. In nine years, it had cost Chicago's wealthy, well-intentioned Marshall Field some $7,000,000. He had hoped for a change when Crum & Barnes took over last spring (TIME, May 10). They had big plans, high hopes and promises of plenty of money from new investors. The promises were not kept. Field had had to pump in another $600,000 and Joe Barnes had to neglect his editing to hunt more money...
...with all that, your radio seems to me an amazing tissue of unkept promises and bad mistakes. One of the worst . . . is that there are not enough able radio writers, actors or directors to fill the least part of your colossal number of broadcasting hours. And you make almost no effort to cultivate them...