Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sense of Congress was that the nation had to take the lesser gamble in order to keep its economy from being convulsed. But in its present mood, Congress was prepared to vote the whole $44 billion with scarcely an important voice raised in protest. Before the week was out, the House, by 311 to 1,* had voted Mahon's extra $16.7 billion. The $10 billion would come next...
...total of 2,652 Summer School students passed the warm months in Cambridge, studying for hour exams and rushing in Lament to keep cool. While footloose Harvard vacationers spent the summer girdling the globe, the large crop of summer scholars (about half of whom were from Harvard and Radcliffe) kept Cambridge busy during the School's eight-week sessions...
...strange war. It was, first of all, what they called a "limited war," something new for a nation which had been raised on world wars with world peaces in between. A limited war, it turned out, could be convenient. It allowed you to keep the pleasant illusion of peace at home while you fought; you had your cake and ate it. But at the same time a limited war was a strained thing, full of contradictions and paradoxes: Army divisions sailed under security orders with flashbulbs blinking and bands playing, and in Japan F-80 pilots ate breakfast were driven...
...Keep things as normal as possible" will be the Harvard policy in what may be the University's last peacetime year...
Harvard students can keep posted on Korea, Congress, and Pennant Race Baseball every morning during the regular term by reading the CRIMSON's world news summary...