Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flared and mobs coursed the streets. Store fronts were smashed by looters, and the flames of riot blazed intermittently-but they never reached the roaring pitch of a Watts or a Harlem, a Chicago or a Hough. In most of the cities, cool tactics by police and city governments kept the flare-ups from becoming "the fire next time," and proved once again that riot is as much a state of mind as of mayhem...
...their part, the police and National Guardsmen kept their gunfire to a minimum (two Negroes were treated for minor gunshot wounds). The real heroes of Tampa were the members of the "City Youth Patrol," a hastily organized band of 150 young Negroes-many of whom had hurled rocks and fire bombs the night before-who tramped the slums in white hard hats and warned the mobs to cool it. By midweek, thanks to their efforts, the temperature of violence had fallen enough for Governor Kirk to order the National Guard back to their homes...
...Kirschkes deliberately sought wider horizons for their 24-year marriage. With their son and daughter grown, they moved four years ago into a modern apartment in Naples, near the Long Beach Yacht Club, where for a time they kept a 33-ft. sloop. Both found the club a good place to meet new friends, and some of them may have wound up berthing at Rivo Alto...
Scene: the White House lawn. Time: after 10 p.m. on the night of a crucial U.N. Security Council debate on the Israeli-Arab conflict. Dramatis personae: CBS White House Correspondent Dan Rather and a camera crew that he kept on after others left, in hopes of getting a post-debate statement. TV lights are on, microphones are live, cameras...
...lawn left, Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird, hand in hand. Double take by Rather. Then: "Good evening, Mr. President." Pleasantries. The President and the First Lady stroll on, then return to Rather. Cameras on by now, taping. Almost casually, the President tells Rather that developments of the day had kept the U.S.-Russia détente intact, had helped save the U.N. He had had "some exchanges" with the Russians-the first hard news on use of the hot line. Lady Bird tugs L.B.J. out of the light, but he returns. The Israelis are not going to give up easily...