Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultramodern schools, minority groups continue to complain. Last fall, the school board formally opened the all-new, air-conditioned Intermediate School 201 in East Harlem, which featured a low teacher-student ratio and special tutorial help. Outraged that it was not fully integrated, Negro neighborhood leaders ordered a boycott, kept it closed for five days, demanded that the board provide an all-Negro teaching staff. Since then, unruly students have reflected their parents' pique by disrupting classes, committing wanton acts of vandalism. This month, the embattled white principal, Stanley R. Lisser, quit to take a better-paying...
...load of casualties superimposed on the already overburdened hospitals is unbelievable," Rusk concludes. But the U.S. has kept the system from collapsing and will continue to do more. "It has always been our policy to help the sick and the wounded, whatever the cause, and this we are attempting to do in Viet...
...shouted at the poor child, 'Your mother is a wicked woman who has killed three people! and your father is still alive!' It was terrible, prying her loose." On another occasion, a group of children decided to follow Jackie and John home from school. One of them kept shouting at John: "Your father's dead, your father's dead." "You know how children are," says Jackie. "They've even said it to me when I've run into them at school...
...stalemated strike that has kept Toledo's two newspapers, the morning Times and the afternoon Blade, shut down for nearly five months, was finally settled last week. Not that the two sides had ever been all that far apart. The unions were asking for a two-year contract with a $24-a-week raise; the company offered a 28-month contract with a $20 raise...
Sheer Monkery. Much to his parents' dismay, Luther kept the vow, two weeks later entered the Augustinian priory at Erfurt. Luther was a pious cleric. "I kept the rule so strictly," he recalled years later, "that I may say that if ever a monk got to Heaven by his sheer monkery it was I. If I had kept on any longer, I should have killed myself with vigils, prayers, reading and other work...