Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voter fills out the card in three places. One part is kept by him as a reminder of his pledge; one part goes to local headquarters, with instructions as to whether he needs transportation or a baby sitter on primary election day; one part, marked "White House Copy," is presumably sent to the President. In the return mail comes a photograph of Johnson and Lady Bird sitting in Air Force...
...small groups of Marines and MPs began arriving outside the walls of the embattled embassy. The Viet Cong burst into the embassy's consular building and various other buildings in the compound, but the Americans on the scene threw such heavy fire at them that the guerrillas were kept too busy to set off their explosives...
...outburst against a French general in 1945 cost him a place on the negotiating team that tried to win independence from France at the end of World War II. A running feud with two powerful Politburo members-whose pro-Peking sentiments were resented by the strongly nationalistic Giap-kept him well down in Hanoi's Communist pecking order. Although he is North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, military commander and Vice Premier-and a popular hero second only to Ho Chi Minh-Giap has still not risen above sixth place in his party's official hierarchy...
...group was laughing. After a quick drumhead trial in Havana's La Cabaña fortress, Escalante and 36 of his fellow conspirators were found guilty of treason and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 15 years (Escalante got the maximum). Though Fidel himself kept silent, he did not seem ready to split with Russia and lose his $1,000,000-a-day dole. Cuban Minister Without Portfolio Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, speaking for Castro, called for ideological peace talks with Moscow; after all, he noted, it was only realistic "that we should bring forward our criticisms...
Speedboat Raids. Around Port Harcourt in the south, Biafrans have kept at bay Nigerian troops, who are 25 miles down the channel on Bonny Island. They have mounted gun batteries and trip-wire mines around the channel to discourage a waterborne assault, even venture out in speedboats for raids on Bonny. Biafran guerrillas sneak into their occupied capital of Enugu at night to harry the federal garrison, are battling with rusty Dane guns and cutlasses against a federal division along the Niger River. The Biafrans have also prevented another invasion force dug into the port town of Calabar from crossing...