Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aborticide is strictly an individual or family matter [Oct. 13], then why not matricide, patricide, sororicide, fratricide, infanticide or suicide, so long, of course, as they are kept in the home...
Under the arrangement, Mexico got 437 acres of El Chamizal and the U.S. kept 193. The pact also requires the building of a new river channel and three bridges across the Rio Grande, with Mexico sharing the costs. Meantime, Congress allocated $44.9 million for the relocation and compensation of the 5,600 residents and property owners of the area. Now that the Mexicans have El Chamizal, mostly a thicket of slums, the question is: What will they do with it? So far, they have not said...
...walled house in the little Delta village of An Lac Thon to mourn a fallen comrade. Only the afternoon before, their district propaganda chief had been killed by a raiding party of U.S. Navy commandos. Now, as they gathered in silence, a security guard of 40 men kept watch in the rain outside, and another 50 Viet Cong waited only 100 yards away. All the guns seemed hardly necessary. As they do with many a Delta village, the Viet Cong considered An Lac Thon to be their own, to the extent of maintaining there a small cemetery for their dead...
Yesterday's victory kept the Yardlings undefeated. They have allowed only three goals to six opponents. Only one of those was scored on a field shot, by the previously undefeated Dartmouth team that fell to Harvard last week. The Yardlings have scored 27 times...
...picture is not all bleak. Some employers have sought to fight prejudice by setting an unofficial quota so the number of immigrants is kept below a particular level in any one department. After a difficult introductory period many employers have found that the hostility dise down...