Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pretty careful about letting people know who I was, because the Cubs are still after me, and there were a couple of their scouts around all week. They would have known that only Huey skill and strength could have done what I was considering; so I just kept still...
...face. The crowd recoiled. An old man reached the Sheriff and belabored him with a stick. While grappling this assailant, who later died, Sheriff Adkins says he heard his deputies start shooting their real guns. The crowd fled shrieking down the street in all directions. The deputies kept shooting. Bodies began to drop-three, five, ten, a score. "For God's sake stop firing!" Sheriff Adkins says he shouted. But already a lot more blood had been shed in the textile war of the Carolinas. Three men were dead. There were 24 wounded (mostly in the back), including...
...stand this no longer!" He started across the open yard with a lumberman's coat over his clericals, bearing not peace and absolution but Death-a 50 Ib. box of dynamite. Rifles and machine guns on the prison wall and in the warden's darkened house kept up a blistering barrage into the cellhouse windows as the priest went to the building's very entrance and laid the charge to blast an entrance. The ignition battery did not work. Father O'Neil returned for another heavy load of dynamite, ran in, laid it, ran back. Danny...
Solo Endurance. Vern Speich, Santa Ana, Calif., automobile salesman, kept his plane up 38 hrs., 48 sec. at Long Beach, Calif., last week, thus breaking the non-refueling solo endurance record (36 hrs., 56 min., 36 sec.) of Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy...
...have used the words "public" and "popular" to designate this assortment of values for the simple reason that it does not faithfully reflect the undergraduate judgement. The undergraduate, in notable instances at least, is in open rebellion against it. He is kept in subjection only by the weight of alumni opinion...