Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harder. There were occasional unscripted moments of relief. At Indiana University, Secretary of State Dean Rusk kept his customary cool as he faced a student audience speckled with hecklers shouting "Murderer!," "Fascist!," "Lies!" and "Hell no, we won't go!" Rusk at first shrugged off the heckling with a joke: "Thank you for letting me be your Halloween guest. But after a student yelled, "You invited yourself," the urbane Georgian grew grim. "Let's be clear about one thing, and I'll be as gentle as I can," he said. "I am prepared to be your guest...
Pearson had charged that two members of Reagan's staff were involved, that Reagan had kept them on for about six months after first hearing about their proclivities and that he finally dismissed them, not for moral reasons but be cause right-wing supporters had object ed to the pair's relatively moderate political views. In his best purple prose, Pearson claimed that an all-male "sex orgy" in a Lake Tahoe cabin had been attended by the two staff members, a part-time athletic adviser to Reagan, two sons of a state senator and a Republican campaign...
...king. By the 18th century, patriotism denoted love of a free country, devotion to human rights as well as nationalism. To Stephen Decatur's famous toast "Our country may she always be right; but our country right or wrong" Carl Schurz later replied: "When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." Who decides what is right and what is wrong? The Schurz position suggests that the only valid answer to that question is the free individual conscience-indeed, that true love of country involves criticism as well as praise, for mere acquiescence may be mindless...
...Russia celebrates the anniversary on Nov. 7 because in 1917 it kept time by the Julian calendar, which ran 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar used in the West. It adopted the Gregorian...
...girl, just back from Athens, cried as she recounted what happened at the ancient theater below the Acropolis. A young actress, Greece's leading interpreter of classical tragedy, was bowing to the audience, when a government minister stepped up to the stage to congratulate her. She ignored him and kept bowing to the wildly cheering crowd, until he turned around and left...