Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, L.B.J. is not a man to yield power freely. He has, for instance, flatly rejected the idea of sharing taxes with the states. In so doing, he kept jealous guard over the prime source of a President's domestic strength the federal taxing power...
...that he now concedes they have made in the past, while continuing to insist they are not there now; 2) the U.S. launches no serious raids, bombings or actions in populated frontier areas but confines itself to "uninhabited outlying regions difficult to control;" and 3) the South Vietnamese be kept out of any hot pursuit into Cambodia. For good measure, Sihanouk offered to receive a representative from President Johnson, the first time he has done so since he broke diplomatic relations with...
Despite the fact that Liberian politics are not exactly democratic-Tub-man's True Whig Party has no effective opposition-"Uncle Shad" has never kept himself aloof from his people. He hears hundreds of petitions each week in his $6,000,000 sun-reflector-coated palace, settles even minor matters in his government, including the marital disputes of his staff. He finds time to dance a spry quadrille at soirees in the palace and is much less a stickler than he used to be about top hats and cutaways at state functions; at a dam dedication last year...
...Soviet writers now in prison, the regime has kept at least three in jail for a full year without even going through the formalities of declaring them guilty at a trial. Some 150 leading scientists and writers have petitioned the government to hold an open trial for Aleksei Dobrovolsky, 29, and Yuri Galanskov, 29, who circulated an underground literary journal called Phoenix, and for Aleksandr Ginzburg, 30, who had smuggled to the West the transcript of the 1966 trial of Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel...
Only declining farm prices (food for home consumption is now 1.1% cheaper than a year ago) kept the cost of living from inflating more. From 1966, home ownership costs (including mortgage interest, taxes and insurance) rose 3.5%; apparel, 4%; used autos, 4.3%; and medical care, 6.6%. Since May, overall consumer prices have climbed at an annual rate...