Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NIXON has not had to lie to be devious. He has just kept silent on the pretext that he is afraid of jeopardizing the Paris peace talks...
...What kept the Social Democrats upright more than anything else was Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia, which encouraged countless voters to stick with a known quantity. The chief loser was Sweden's tiny Communist Party, which normally inherits any protest votes from the Social Democrats' left. This time it was the Communists who were on the wrong end of the protest vote. Communist Leader Carl-Henrik Hermansson roundly denounced the Soviet invasion and was denounced by Moscow radio in turn as "the chatterbox husband of a millionairess"-his wife is the daughter of a Göteborg...
...torchlight parade with North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Moscow to protest the U.S. bombing. Like Palme, most Swedes oppose Washington's Viet Nam policy. Sweden's own foreign policy, however, was never an issue in the campaign. After all, Sweden's traditional neutrality has kept it out of war for 154 years...
Under the old key-man approach, the courts kept calling on the same people over and over again. Now, voting lists will furnish a far greater supply of veniremen, and repeated calls on individual citizens will become rare...
...facts, such as fixing the time of death, were botched by his attorney. The case against him, Smith suggests, was founded on shoddy police investigatory work and was somewhat in the nature of a frameup. The actual bases of his many appeals for a rehearing and retrial, which have kept him alive these many years, involve improper trial procedures and the applicability of the Supreme Court rulings regarding forced confession and post-indictment police interrogations...