Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nights and bought a lucky shirt-green with white polka dots. On the last day he had the classic gambler's experience. On the way to the airport, he stopped in the lobby for a last turn at roulette, bet the birthdates of his six children, won, kept on winning. "I couldn't lose," he recalls, "and I had to leave." Finally he bet his own birthdate-and lost...
...force that is heavily Italian, but-according to city officials-includes some 400 Negroes as well. Until last week, Spina could claim the ultimate satisfaction in police work: without undue harshness or permissiveness, merely by enforcing the law as it is written, his cops had kept the peace in a potentially turbulent city. Even when the Harlem riots of 1964 set off secondary explosions of racial strife in the neighboring cities of Jersey City, Paterson and Elizabeth, Newark managed to keep its cool...
...root them out; that is how the leathernecks ran into the bloody ambush just north of their base at Con Thien three weeks ago. By burying some of their guns in deep holes and caves and moving others from place to place, the North Vietnamese have kept the Marines under continual pressure. Last week they took some heavy pounding themselves. After two months in which they stayed away from the DMZ, largely because of SAM missiles entrenched there, the Air Force's big eight-engined B-52s returned to pound Communist installations in the northern half of the zone...
Anything That Moves. Many U.S. helicopter units in Viet Nam are already equipped with the scope, and many of them fly four to seven missions a week. To avoid hitting innocent civilians, most missions are carried out in "free-fire zones" designated by the Vietnamese province chief and kept under strict dusk-to-dawn curfew. The U.S. forces also drop leaflets warning the people that anything moving outside of their village after dark will be fired upon...
...spite of these shortcomings, the word that kept coming to mind was "exquisite." Jaime Laredo's near-flawless intonation enabled him to give the most moving rendition of the "Kreutzer's" opening double-stop solo I have ever heard. As one member of the audience said, it was a pleasure to sit back and to listen to a violinst without having to cringe. As a team the Laredos often seemed to compete with each other. But when they both agreed on a sound, the effect was breathtaking--as when Mrs. Laredo brought herself to match her husband's pianissimo...