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keep and up
But he couldn't keep up with them.
`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.
Mama tried to talk to them and keep them quiet while she tidied up the sitting room before the First Family returned.
His English friends, it said, had gone into training to keep up with him vocally and with his `` allegro movements around the luncheon table ''.
It has not been any great mental effort on my part to keep up with this mechanization which has brought about new ways of dialing.
One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.
Now it would be up to me to keep the little girl out of mischief.
Body heat in the close quarters will help keep up the temperature.
In the national interest even the affluent universities must consider some division of labor among them to replace their present ambitions to keep up with the Joneses in all branches.
You may dress it up with any number of accessories or keep it as simple as you choose.
Do keep the grill high enough above the fire so that when fat from meat drips down and flares up, flames cannot reach the meat.
For 25-cents load up the cooler with ice and keep cool pop in the car.
The thermostat is important to get your engine up to operating temperature quickly, and to keep it running at its most efficient temperature through the proper circulation of the coolant.
However, such a hotbed of gossip had grown up during the trial, that every precaution had to be taken to keep my visit from being whispered to the world, Society, and even, alas, to my own mother.
If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.
But consider also how much you and your family can keep up along with your other work.
When surplus land is not expensive to buy or to keep up, it is usually better to buy it than to buy so small an acreage that the development of adjoining properties might impair the residential value of the farm.
Then off again, rushing to keep up.
I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

keep and pressure
They are putting strong pressure on their police departments to keep order.
To control the odor, modern toilets use a small fan to keep the toilet under negative pressure, and exhaust the gasses to a vent pipe.
In the early 1920s the Yugoslav government of Serbian prime minister Nikola Pasic used police pressure over voters and ethnic minorities, confiscation of opposition pamphlets and other measures of election rigging to keep the opposition, and mainly the Croatian Peasant Party and its allies in minority in Yugoslav parliament.
For more massive stars, electron degeneracy pressure will not keep the iron core from collapsing to very great density, leading to formation of a neutron star, black hole, or, speculatively, a quark star.
His New Look policy of nuclear deterrence gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing the funding for conventional military forces ; the goal was to keep pressure on the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits.
Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.
Brooke, however, applied pressure to keep Alexander in Italy, considering him unfit for the assignment in France.
Other often-less-obvious elements of mania include delusions ( of grandeur, potential, persecution or otherwise ), hypersensitivity, hypervigilance, hypersexuality, hyper-religiosity, hyperactivity, impulsiveness, talkativeness, an internal pressure to keep talking ( over-explanation ) or rapid speech, grandiose ideas and plans, and decreased need for sleep ( e. g. feeling rested after 3 or 4 hours of sleep ).
Its relative rarity on Earth, like that of helium, is due to its relative lightness, high vapor pressure at very low temperatures, and chemical inertness, all properties which tend to keep it from being trapped in the condensing gas and dust clouds which resulted in the formation of smaller and warmer solid planets like Earth.
With the opponent's right arm across his own torso, the athlete uses his left hand to keep the pressure on the opponent's right arm by grabbing and pressing down on it just above the wrist.
In all turbocharger applications, boost pressure is limited to keep the entire engine system, including the turbo, inside its thermal and mechanical design operating range.
Encouraging activists to keep up the pressure on the apartheid regime was a key component in the ANC's campaign to liberate their country.
Relief valves commonly use a spring to keep the valve shut, but allow excessive pressure to force the valve open against the spring-loading.
Prince Paul submitted to the fascist pressure and signed the Tripartite Treaty in Vienna on 25 March 1941, hoping to still keep Yugoslavia out of the war.
* Aerials involve floating in the air while using a hand to hold the board on his or her feet or by not keeping constant and careful pressure on the board with the feet to keep it from floating away.
Modern space suits augment the basic pressure garment with a complex system of equipment and environmental systems designed to keep the wearer comfortable, and to minimize the effort required to bend the limbs, resisting a soft pressure garment's natural tendency to stiffen against the vacuum.
In many cases, organ-procurement representatives will request screening tests ( such as blood typing ) or organ-preserving drugs ( such as blood pressure drugs ) to keep potential donors ' organs viable until their suitability for transplants can be determined and family consent ( if needed ) can be obtained.
As this is absorbed by the soda lime, air is sucked in from the U-tube to keep the pressure constant, displacing the liquid.
However, relying on a pump to provide pressure is expensive ; to keep up with varying demand, the pump would have to be sized to meet peak demands.
The Thervingi however were not able to keep the Huns at bay, and were under increasing pressure from the Huns who had already conquered their kinsmen, the Greuthungi.
Because of its relation to aortic dissection blood pressure needs to be regularly monitored and hypertension should be treated aggressively with an aim to keep blood pressure below 140 / 80 mmHg.
The minimum quantity of water or liquid used in the recipe to keep the pressure cooker filled with steam is sufficient.
One of the functions of the Eustachian tubes that connect the middle ear to the nasopharynx is to help keep middle ear pressure the same as air pressure.

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