Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican and Liberal parties in 1965, John Vliet Lindsay pledged a nonpartisan administration. Republican Nelson Rockefeller could have used some cam paign support from the mayor in last year's gubernatorial race, but Lindsay blandly observed that his office was above politics and for the most part kept his silence...
...Duplicity. As British counterintelligence chief, he knew every strategic secret-from the development of new nuclear weapons to troop deployments-that might interest the Russians; his job was to track down and tell his government exactly which secrets had been penetrated by Russian spies. From that position, he 1) kept the Kremlin up to date on everything that really mattered, 2) selected which secrets to tell the British that the Russians knew about, and 3) told the Russians which secrets he had told the British they knew about...
...parked car, eventually worked his way up to an armed stickup. Caught and locked up, he proceeded to pry a board out of a fence around Mattapan State Hospital, where he was under observation, and began an ancillary career: jail breaking. When the police got him back, they kept him for five years; when he got out, he says, "you might say I took up bank robbing as my vocation. In about two years, with various accomplices, I made eleven withdrawals. There wasn't much planning-none of that movie stuff with diagrams and stop watches...
...they took over a cell block, and an 84-hour prison revolt began that 38 state policemen and an Army tank could not quell. It only ended when Ringleader Green's daughter pleaded with him to surrender; after extracting some promises of reforms, he did. Some promises were kept, but Green was on his way to Alcatraz, the federal pen for troublemakers...
...present informal and unstructured contacts between students and Faculty do not assure that student opinion will be articulated on every issue. Many issues are decided behind the scenes before students know they exist. On other issues, students cannot formulate an intelligent opinion because pertinent information is kept secret. Finally, once student opinion has been formulated, it often takes an extraordinary effort to articulate it effectively when there exist no institutions for doing...