Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shattered in October 1967 when his F-4C Phantom was shot down over Hanoi, said that North Vietnamese doctors had removed his elbow but not all the steel fragments. It was a sloppy operation, said Frishman, because the doctors "are willing only to do what is necessary to keep us alive." Because of his loosely dangling forearm, he was known to his fellow inmates as "The Grim Reaper...
...himself constantly battling colleagues. Almost at war's end, SS Leader Heinrich Himmler was using scarce materials to build a country house for his mistress. Speer's plea for women workers was vetoed by Hitler, at Martin Bormann's suggestion, on the grounds that it would keep them from producing good Aryan offspring. Half a million Ukrainian girls were brought into Germany instead, to become servants in the homes of Nazi functionaries...
Anderson has lost none of his zeal-and none of his Boy Scout piety. "We get 200 to 300 letters a day from little people who have lost faith in the possibility of seeing justice done through the normal processes," he says. And he vows "to keep the column what Drew made it-a voice for the voiceless...
...million instead of the proposed $2.7 billion a year by limiting "lowincome allowances" in the House bill. Some 5,000,000 poor people who now pay taxes would still be excused from paying anything, Kennedy reckoned. Despite his proposal to cut the basic corporate income tax, Kennedy would keep most of the House bill's provisions that raise business taxes. The biggest such provision is the proposed elimination of the investment tax credit that now saves businesses $2.7 billion a year...
Although President Nixon pledged during his campaign to keep the oil industry's depletion allowance at the present 27½%, Kennedy accepted the House decision to roll it back to 20%. In doing so, he tacitly recognized that the allowance has become the paramount symbol of tax favoritism. Kennedy scoffed at suggestions that the reduction might force most independent operators out of business...