Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week Adam Clayton Powell kept New York in an uproar over whether he would return to Harlem from his Bimini exile on Palm Sunday. In the end, he disappointed his followers by deciding to tarry a while in his island sanctuary...
...different treatment from that handed out to most of the 426,000 who are now serving time. Too many prisons are grey, forbidding fortresses; some are 100 years old or more. And too many emphasize punishment, to the detriment of rehabilitation. The commission suggests that new prisons should be kept as small as possible. They should have a residential air, and be located near cities and universities, where cooperation with industry and academicians could be easily arranged. At the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn., the Dictograph Corp. sponsors a training program for micro-soldering of hearing aids, then employs...
...place. Drunkenness, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, gambling and minor sex violations account for almost half of all arrests. Such behavior is "too serious to be ignored," but "its inclusion in the criminal-justice system raises questions deserving examination." Drunkenness, for example, should be treated at public health "detoxification" stations and kept out of courts entirely, unless it is accompanied by disorderly conduct...
Instant Reprisals. Not to mention Huk terrorism, which is the tie that binds together all the other Huk influences. The Huk organization is small, dedicated and tightly disciplined. Led by Faustino Delmundo, alias Commander Sumulong, it has purposely kept down its size so as not to attract the main force attention of the Philippine military. The terrorist arm of the movement comprises no more than 160 killers (supported by another 150 local armed guerrillas), who roam the central Luzon countryside in bands of three or four, meting out instant reprisals to anyone who dares defy Huk orders. In the past...
...when an assistant principal asked quietly: "All right, what do you really want us to do in the schools?" the audience was agonizingly silent. Last week parents of students at West Harlem's P.S. 125 kept 1,500 children out of school to dramatize their demand for a bigger voice in school affairs...