Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...note that rubber garter snakes did not keep pigeons away from the courthouse ledges in West Palm Beach [TIME, July.10...
...Pigeons are shy of any moving object. If the rubber garter snakes had wriggled, the pigeons would not have come near them. An inflated paper sack tied where the breeze can move it will keep the pigeons away...
Determined to keep strategic goods from getting into Red Korea through the service entrance, the U.S. Commerce Department revoked all licenses for U.S. trading with Communist China. Then, to guard the trap doors as well, Commerce placed a close watch on the shipment of U.S. oil refining and production equipment to Latin America, on the hunch that some was being reshipped to Asia...
...obvious intent of the U.S. plan was to keep the right flank more or less stationary, and swing the rest of the line gradually south and east until the U.S. left flank came to rest safely on the southern coast near Pusan. The operation was endangered last week by a Red drive down Korea's western coast which captured Kwangju and pushed on towards Sunchon. This indicated that the Reds' main drive may not follow the U.S. retreat along the railroad into the very rough, defensible country southeast of Taejon...
...kind of adolescent trouble. Gangling, oversensitive, growing ahead of his mental and physical strength, he is not strong enough to take the shocks life has to offer. The girl of his first grown-up affair almost seduces him back to a love of life. But when he goes to keep their first rendezvous he finds her ill, and within a few days she is dead. He takes refuge in psychosomatic illness, until a gentle, understanding nurse helps him to manhood and to a courageous acceptance of the human lot. One false step with this story would have taken Author Moravia...