Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front with the nation's black dissidents, but they were markedly unsuccessful in the Chicago slums, where many black organizations urged their members to "stay cool" and uninvolved. Several leaders of such gangs as the Blackstone Rangers left Chicago during convention week. But fear of a united front kept the Chicago police on edge...
Perhaps the most important single reason for battered Biafra's continuing survival against the attacks of the Nigerian Federal Army is a steady infusion of French military aid. Although the French will not acknowledge their role, one of the worst-kept secrets of the war is the fact that armaments are flown into the secessionist state almost nightly from two former French colonies, Gabon and the Ivory Coast. Hard proof of responsibility for the arms lift, however, is hard to come by, as TIME Correspondent James Wilde reported from the Gabonese capital of Libreville...
Harvard coach Bob Harrison then tried a half-court zone press, but the Midshipmen kept their poise, piercing the zone for easy and game-clinching shots...
...Crimson offense totally dominated the first period, scoring five times in six minutes, prompting one Harvard spectator to call it "a six minute debauch." The team kept the pressure up, scoring three goals in both the second and third periods...
...drawings, watercolors and wash and chalk sketches of great master painters are rarely seen. They fade easily on exposure to light and so are customarily kept in museum storerooms, viewable only upon special appointment. A great pity, as this collection amply illustrates. The 300 selections present a remarkable range of style and subject and a surprising spectrum of soft colors (the chalks and washes) that often show off the sharp eye and skeletal strength of the artist better than works done in larger compass...