Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provinces. At the other extreme, Indonesia, not long ago-Peking's most belligerent camp follower, has turned on its own Communist Party, ousted it from influence and well-nigh annihilated it. This, in turn, has led to the end of the Indonesian-Malaysian confrontation that for so long kept that part of Asia tense...
...room where they found a crack in the frame of a portrait of Mao," reported Pravda last week. "They beat people with sticks, rifle butts, chairs and electric wires. One man was tortured a whole night. When he lost consciousness, they poured cold water over him, and kept torturing him until he died." Pravda also told how Red Guards from Peking seized party headquarters in Shanghai and tossed bricks and glass at people in the street below...
...preparation, Mao in May closed China's schools. Actually, the students kept on attending classes, but they studied only one subject: Mao's thought. With youth behind him, Mao was able to confront the Party Central Committee in early August with an ultimatum: vote for me, or else...
...once great republic of Venice was dying. Spies kept watch on the Piazza San Marco, clerics confiscated books by Voltaire and Rousseau, and not infrequently a tourist would stumble upon a dead body ignominiously tagged "For treason against the state." Throughout the 18th century, Venice still ranked as the favorite playground of Europe, but with its possessions dwindling, its power declining, and its wealthy reveling in pomp and cant, all that remained was shimmer and shadow...
According to standard art-market plots, Millar should have kept mum, sent an unknown agent to the auction and picked up a six-figure painting for a three-figure pittance. But as a public-service scholar and a proper servant of the Crown, he says, his only ethical course was to get the painting properly identified. Besides, as he somewhat testily adds, the Crown collection "already has a great number of Rubenses." Millar sought out Christie's Carritt, diffidently asked: "Isn't that a rather important picture you've got in your sale?" Carritt took a quick...