Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...usual, and the natives crept out of their huts to sleep in the tall moist grass. To the east, where the rain forest changes to flat plains, then rolling hills, then towering mountains, blacks and whites alike lit fires as the sun disappeared, folding themselves in blankets to keep off the bitter chill...
...tiny republic of Andorra (pop. 6,400), a green country of shepherds and smugglers high in the Pyrenees, has never pretended to keep up with the times. Not until two years ago did Andorra's 24-man Council of the Valleys get around to rescinding its 1914 declaration of war on Germany. Andorra's few state documents are kept in a giant oak closet at the government house, the Casa de la Vail. Since every Andorran is deemed honest, the government's money is apt to be lying about anywhere...
...Washington expelled Valentin M. Ivanov, first secretary of the Soviet embassy, accusing him of paying a young American "a substantial sum" to seek a U.S. Government job. But there were signs that the Soviet government was making progress in its campaign to keep ordinary Russians away from contact with foreigners: it doesn't take much to revive memories. Reported Los Angeles Schoolteacher Betty Jean Koferts, who was shadowed on her Soviet trip because she dated a Russian boy: "They took him to police headquarters and warned him against seeing me again . . . Most people there are afraid of Americans...
...even to get appointments for interviews. The drain on Cuba's supply of trained men-engineers, economists, doctors-last week persuaded Castro to cancel all existing exit permits. Henceforth, those who want to leave home must fill out an elaborately detailed questionnaire. Its aim was plain: to keep tab on those who are getting out and to provide a handy list of their assets in case they do not come back...
Crowther complains of having "to keep darting the eyes back and forth from the images to the subtitles." A moment's reflection should remind him that one does not stare fixedly at one spot on the screen in a non-subtitled film. The eye is constantly on the move, picking up touches all over the (often very wide) screen. So the glancing back and forth in subtitled films is hardly a unique physiological phenomenon...