Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceiling on presidential visibility was deliberately kept low. Johnson is disturbed by his precipitous plunge in popularity (43% in the latest Lou Harris Poll). Though he himself ascribes this to the normal vicissitudes of U.S. politics, he and his advisers have agreed that his wisest course of action may be to continue to lie low for the time being; in 1966, he spent some 90 days in relative seclusion along the Pedernales River...
...drew to its close, and the usually restrained Harvard contingent among the fullhouse broke into a thundcrous "Beat B.C. Kupka on a breakaways. McPhee thwarted bids by Dwight Ware and Smith. and Harvard defenseman Charlie Scammon broke up a threat in the Crimson crease. Hurley. Allen, and Fuller then kept the puck in Harvard's zone for an agonizingly long time, before it flonted out in coming in from the right point...
...hung over Barry for an agonizing five seconds before the referee gave him the two points for a reversal. Freeman kept on driving, and when the final buzzer sounded, the ref gave him three more points for a near-pin, and a spectacular...
Days Off. Behind the threat of recession lies the reality of inflation. For years, West Germany's unchecked economic boom resulted in a spending spree on the part of consumers and government that kept prices moving steeply upward. To make sure that it could keep pace with demand, German industry hoarded workers, thus aggravating the already acute labor shortage...
...months since Castro announced that any Cubans who wanted to could leave his little paradise lost, some 47,000 have flown to freedom on the twice-daily Havana-to-Miami shuttle. But when it came to some 900 persons holding dual Cuban-American citizenship, Castro kept stalling. He seemed to delight in preventing the State Department from helping people who were, at least nominally, U.S. citizens...