Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amer was kept under house arrest at his villa in the fashionable Cairo sub urb of Giza, where last week some Egyptian officers came to question him further. As the Egyptians tell it, Amer apparently swallowed a "large amount of poison pills" after they arrived, but was rushed to a hospital by the officers before they could become fatal. Back home the next day, he left his guards and entered a bathroom, where he swallowed more poison pills that he had concealed beneath an adhesive plaster on his body...
...prize catch was 45-year-old Thong Jamsri, a Peking-trained Vietnamese who was chief organizer of the guerrilla movement. Among the others: the guerrillas' chief quartermaster and contact man who kept them supplied with food, money and other necessities, the head of the execution squad that picked village elders or other local leaders for assassination, a Defense Ministry official who moonlighted as a Communist intelligence agent and indoctrinator, and two renegade policemen...
...Iceland, clung stubbornly to the left-an arbitrary attitude that dated back to an 18th century royal decree for mail coaches. But despite tradition, Swedes could hardly help noticing that neither their own motoring reflexes nor those of visitors from right-hand countries changed at the border. Foreigners kept getting into dangerous difficulties on Swedish roads, and the travel prone Swedes were getting into too many needless accidents abroad. Besides, driving Swedish cars in Sweden was a problem in itself. Because the first cars in Sweden were left-hand-drive imports, Swedish automakers also put left-hand steering...
...that Susan had such a hatred for McNeill after she got a low mark on a test that she pounded her desk, cried "I hate you!," later called him "a son of a bitch" and talked about "dirty black niggers." His lawyers raised the question of why she had kept still for 45 minutes without trying to protest-although a class was in session in an adjoining room, the doors were unlocked, and the interior of McNeill's office was visible through three door windows. The lawyers also wanted to know why Stephanie Smith had waited from June...
...Arab heads of state at their summit session in Khartoum. Another three months of embargo, explained Egyptian Minister of Economy Hassan Abbas Zaki, would cost the West $770 million worth of oil but would deprive the Arab producers of $870 million of income. Only Algeria, the fifth-ranking producer, kept its embargo. And even that involved more symbolism than substance, since the overwhelming percentage of Algerian output goes, as it has all along, to France...