Word: kept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China has launched a virtual cold war against India." grumbled New Delhi's Hindustan Times. Nehru, of course, did not go that far. But he too complained last week that, having overrun Tibet while India kept quiet, the Reds have declared Indian currency illegal in Tibet and started a crackdown on Indian traders, even refused to recognize Indian jurisdiction over thousands of Indians resident in Tibet. ("These persons who have been residing in Tibet for long periods are, to all intents and purposes, Chinese nationals," said Peking.) The chance that the 12,396 Tibet refugees in India would...
...done and quickly, the British government decided, to discredit the name of Roger Casement. Soon prominent figures on both sides of the Atlantic began to hear strange tales about Casement's scandalous "black diaries." These, it was slyly suggested, were the most detailed records ever kept about one man's homosexual orgies...
...lady conductors, responding to President Gamal Abdel Nasser's program for the economic emancipation of Egyptian women. Within six months most of the girl conductors had married either drivers or passengers. Today only three are left on the job. Though Cairo's Moslem women have not been kept in purdah in modern times, the new chance for Arabs coming from stricter regions to meet respectable women casually is apparently an overpowering experience...
Triumphantly, Castro and Morgan paraded their prisoners on television in Havana. Castro bragged: "If we could have kept our plans secret for 15 days, we would have captured Trujillo and his whole army." Ominously, placards saying "To the firing squad!" appeared on buses and walls. Waldo Medina, a prosecuting attorney for the Supreme Court, called for execution of the plotters (the death sentence is legal for "counterrevolutionary activity") and accused the U.S. of egging them on. Bitterness-between Castro and Trujillo, between Castro and his victims at home-grew rapidly...
Radio Receptor employees staggered to the street, coughing and choking, their eyes burning. Some collapsed, some vomited. Emergency squads gave oxygen, took dozens of workers to four hospitals; 18 were kept overnight, and some longer. Assistant Deputy Fire Chief Walter C. Wood cleared a two-block area around the plant, kept residents out until 3 a.m., when he thought it was safe...