Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently unconvinced that the rioting that marked the campaign was really over, shopkeepers cautiously kept their stores barricaded last week, days after the election. Despite the assurances of Governor Sir John Shaw Rennie that his police can keep order, everyone knows that the nearest British armed forces are at least seven hours away by plane-in Aden, where they already have their hands full...
...Garland affects a far broader audience than her ever-present little bluebirds. She has the true entertainer's capacity for transmitting her feelings across the footlights. Nor is it a oneway message. "Audiences," she says, "have kept me alive." As she told her exuberant cult at the Palace last week: "Everything I want is right here...
...when Negro inmates (now 65% of the segregated prison population) were allowed to take wives or girl friends to their sleeping quarters. For privacy, they hung blankets around the beds. Later, the staff allowed prisoners to build separate units, and eventually girl friends were barred. The system was kept quiet for years, but now it is openly acknowledged, and no one in Mississippi seems greatly exercised about...
Writing in the current issue of the Criminal Law Bulletin, University of Mississippi Sociologist Columbus B. Hopper reports that only 10% of Parchman's 822 unmarried prisoners resent the husbands' privilege. Having studied the system since 1959, Hopper claims that Parchman's unique visits have kept marriages intact, bolstered prison morale and reduced homosexuality-all in sharp contrast to other prisons, where discontent and riots are often attributed to sexual tensions. Hopper adds that Parchman is hardly progressive in any other way; as a prison farm, it simply has more space for informality than conventional prisons with...
...enigmatic and elusive to Western eyes as the legendary Abominable Snowman that ambles across its snowy slopes. Dotted with aerie temples and emerald valleys, ruled by a Dragon King whose subjects dress like Renaissance page boys, Bhutan relished the role of the world's last Shangri-La, and kept a closed door to foreigners. As a result it preserved a way of life indistinguishable from that of its countrymen a thousand years...