Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Republican side, Congressmen appeared to be more anxious to exploit half truths than to get at whole truths. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, largely responsible for the latest furor, had dug the case out again in his effort to discredit the State Department, and that seemed to keep many a solid Republican from joining in the demand for a full investigation...
With a prodigious birth rate and a declining death rate, Puerto Rico's one-crop sugar economy cannot keep pace with its population, which is increasing at a rate unequaled anywhere else in the world. The average Puerto Rican earned only $14 a week. In New York, he could confidently expect to double his wages. Some dreamed of their children becoming doctors, lawyers, nurses. In the bucket seats of a DC-3, passage was only...
Naturally tidy, they keep the shabby rooms spotless, but there is no keeping down the cockroaches that scuttle across the linoleum flooring or the rats that infest the blocked-off dumbwaiters and the rotting spaces between the walls. (Every week 15 to 25 Barrio babies are bitten by rats as they sleep.) And Puerto Ricans, reared under a tropical sun that burns dry any refuse, have no feeling about garbage. They just heave it into the alley. The men have a hard time getting jobs. When they do, they find the U.S. tempo exacting. Said one plaintively: "If one fails...
...made a new proposal: let the Western Foreign Ministers meet to examine the procedure to be followed in negotiations. Within 40 minutes, the French rejected that suggestion, declared that it would simply waste time. The French and their continental friends announced they would go ahead without Britain, but would keep the British informed. His Majesty's government expressed a hope that Britain might be able to join the plan once the details became clear...
While he prayed and his soldiers fought, loyal Burmans were combatting rebellion with a third weapon: humor. The Rangoon newspaper Burman recently printed a definition: "A Communist is a man who promises that you'll have no rent to pay and does his best to keep his promises by destroying everything you'd be willing to pay rent for." One rapidly disintegrating group of rebels is called the White Band PVO (People's Volunteer Organization). The surrendered PVO leader, Bo La Yaung, last week toured Rangoon flourishing a chit that read: "Bo La Yaung, having surrendered...