Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carol kept a diary. Hers was different from most-it consisted of her conversations with Janney concerning the trial. The Communists' lawyers produced Carol's diary last week when they tried to upset the Government's tedious, costly effort to jail the top U.S. Communists...
With a defiant "hands off!" meanwhile, the Yugoslav government kept up the furious pace of its propaganda war with the Kremlin. Blared Tito's Foreign Office last week: "Yugoslavia's people and its government will not allow anyone whomsoever to interfere in their internal affairs." As to the 31 Russian nationals who, Moscow said, had been treated "inhumanly" in Yugoslav prisons, they were all "spies, saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries...
Later he was arrested twice by the Gestapo on suspicion of having played a part in underground activities. He was quickly released. But in the Gestapo jails, he was kept sleepless by the cries of agony from other prisoners. "I said to myself," he said later: "How can these same fellows now be so cruel who served under me in Cologne as good citizens and efficient policemen...
...members of Britain's Labor Party and Trades Union Congress disagreed. Most of them had never heard of Editor Leech-let alone been interviewed by him-until he attacked their policies and programs in print. In Pittsburgh last week, Leech defended his legwork. Said he: "I kept away from top politicians in both parties...[They] only give you the official party line...I tried hardest to see plain people, to drop into pubs and strike up conversations, to sit on benches in Hyde Park...I don't think there is any serious charge in my whole series that...
Kaiser-Frazer Corp. stockholders had one consolation: nothing had been kept from them. When K-F President Edgar F. Kaiser reported a $5.8 million loss for the first quarter, he had predicted further trouble. Last week, K-F reported a second-quarter loss of $2,300,000 (v. $3,900,000 net in the same 1948 period...