Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...color ever truly disappears from U.S. politics, as religion already has to a large extent, it will only be because the race issue is kept in perspective by black and white politicians alike. As Ed Brooke has said: "If I did confine myself to Negro problems alone, there would hardly ever be another Negro elected to public office except from a ghetto?and justifiably...
Meanwhile, the wall posters of Peking kept up their continuous denunciations of once venerated Red Chinese notables. Latest targets of abuse: Old Warriors Chu Teh, 81, and Ho Lung, 70, Veterans of the Long March and (with Lin Piao) leaders of the Eighth Route Army during China's civil war. Both were charged with "counterrevolutionary activity." If men of such formidable stature are indeed lining up against Mao, it is clear that the battle for Red China is far from over...
...could be called the "production ethic." Sixty-one per cent of the girls who answered the questionnaire spend four or more hours a day on homework, and less than two per cent spend as little as two hours a day studying. Seventy-three per cent reported that they kept up in their assignments as opposed to cramming for the exams. The average grade for the group is between a C-plus and B-minus...
...Jack, they didn't really criticize anything," he said impatiently, "they just kept repeating this stuff about 'erosion of confidence' and 'misgivings.' No, they said they were just here as individuals, not representatives...
...reporter, whose job at the State Department consists in a very large measure of assessing the verbal nuances that make news, could have given them the explanation that night. "I guess they just played it too smooth," he said simply as he put down the receiver. "You kept wondering what the hell they were really after...