Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Political Salesman." The President was determined not to ire voters by calling for a deflationary, across-the-board tax hike. Yet all through the second session, Johnson kept urging the Congress to keep his domestic programs at low price levels. To many members, his pleas smacked of election-year politicking, but when the final dollar total for programs passed over both sessions was added up, the 89th had actually allocated $3.3 billion less than the President had requested. For the two years, the 89th had appropriated just under $264 billion, an alltime record...
Into the Hills. French colonial policy kept the highland Montagnards and lowland Vietnamese apart. Tribal courts were allowed to judge Montagnard morals and property disputes, while Paris encouraged the teaching of tribal languages-and French-in the highland schools. Montagnard troops fought in separate units under French officers, just as the Gurkhas and Rajputs did in Britain's Indian army...
...Medley and Bobby Hatfield do indeed have blue eyes, but you could have sat anyplace in the Back Bay Theatre and figured out that the Righteous Brothers have about as much soul as Laurence Welk. And this is something not to be realized lightly by one who had devoutly kept "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" on her all-time-great list despite the disdain of more sophisticated patrons...
...held against a rock 'n' roll star, but from the tops of their ducktail haircuts to the tips of their white buck loafers, these two look worse than any pair since the Everly Brothers. Bobby -- the little blond one who does that fantastic third "baby" in "Lovin' Feeling" -- kept calling tall dark Bill "eel" and "snake." The names are apt, but his voice gives you a few minutes when -- if you close your eyes or otherwise block out his perpetual smirk -- all can be forgiven. It is amazingly deep and seems to come from nowhere; the echo chamber you were...
...first half was all defense. Led by goalie Jim Sawhill, fullback Mike Tobias, and halfbacks Bruce Goodman, Mike Shwayder, and Steve Goheen, the Crimson kept the ball out of its territory for most of the half...