Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Police protection for the rights and property of others. Police protection for those who still believe in law and order and who will not be frightened or bullied by impassioned militants who pursue the right to protest but cavil at constructive cooperation. This same police protection, in the past, kept the crime rate down and made juvenile delinquency almost nonexistent...
...grounded. Marine Captain Charles Robb, just reassigned to a staff job after commanding a rifle company for five months, has become a cool customer under enemy fire. One day, explained the President, Chuck was taking a shower when he heard the whistle of an incoming round. He listened, then kept lathering away, sure the shell would not disrupt either him or the plumbing. Right enough. It landed 75 yards away...
Peter Kiger, 29, who served at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., kept demanding that guards turn on the steam heat in the room of an elderly Negro patient in the psychotic ward. He claims that they not only refused, but retaliated by forcing him to spend a few days-naked -in a chilly cubicle with a stone floor, known as "the hole." When New Yorker Sullivan was ordered to increase his work output one day, he turned to his foreman and said: "I quit." He spent two weeks in solitary...
Young has kept his office doors open to potential student malcontents. Last fall, for example, he overheard a group of black students criticizing the university, promptly invited them in for a four-hour rehashing of what they felt was wrong. Partly as a result of the discussion, Young pushed through a student-organized course in Afro-American history. This fall the university is also admitting 100 promising but technically unqualified ghetto youths into a special program that will prepare them for normal academic study...
First off, there was this huge telephone strike this summer that kept everyone in Cambridge out of touch with each other for the entire time, Swamped with orders and lacking in workers, the phone company couldn't give the summer people new phones...