Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Party had promised only 200,000 new houses. But serious Tory back-room policymakers like R. A. Butler, who had expressed qualms about the feasibility of 300,000 new houses, were worried. If the Tories tried to out-promise Attlee's welfare program would they be able to keep their campaign promises if and when their party came into power? Improved Tory organization was reaching down to the working class, but it was reaching it largely with a laborite program...
...position, our resources, our interest and our ideals are such that whatever the journey that lies ahead in world affairs, we must take it with you. We hope that you will realize that it is occasionally difficult for us to keep up the pace . . . maintained by a great, long-striding power. There may even be occasional moments when the course may seem to us to be a trifle zigzag, but we know in Canada that the general direction is right and the goal is good...
...once detained General Howe for four days-whether from passion or patriotism-Minerva gets involved with a foundation that wants to honor her ancestress by "restoring" the town. She gets even more involved when the young writer turns up. The play gets most involved of all trying to keep afloat...
...giving some of his alumni a chance to see what he had done. He had invited a special committee of old grads down to Athens-the nucleus of what he hoped would be a network of high-powered alumni clubs. Old Ohioans would find their restless president difficult to keep up with. He was still striding about the Green, still bubbling over with new projects. Among them: another $300,000 dormitory, a new golf course, a speech-department building equipped with broadcasting station and theater. He was still tossing "Howdys" in all directions. "When I walk around," says...
House builders were the first to feel the crackdown. They had thought that for the time being, at least, there would be comparatively mild controls. But Stu Symington, the man chiefly responsible for gearing the U.S. for war production, thought differently. The only way to keep prices down and to free men and materials for the rearmament program, he said, was to clamp down harder & faster. After talking it over with FRB & housing officials last week, Symington won his point. The new restrictions...