Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration's request-lowest ($2.4 billion) submitted in any year since the foreign aid program was begun 18 years ago-was cut by $409 million; loan terms were tightened; and authorizations, except for the Alliance for Progress, were kept to one year. The House had given the Administration most of what it asked; the measure will now go to a Senate-House conference committee, which will probably split the differences and give the Administration a bill slightly more to its liking...
...member of the family escaped. The British overlooked the youngest of the prophet's twelve sons, who kept his father's sect alive, founded a cotton empire, and had six sons of his own. Today, El Mahdi's descendants again rule the Sudan. His grandson, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, is the stiff, unyielding religious leader of the sect to which most Sudanese Moslems belong. A great-grandson, Sadik el Mahdi, is a young British-educated economist who led the Mahdists' Umma Party to victory in last year's election...
...Yankees. There is no end to anecdotes about Romy. When a fire swept through a Catholic hospital in Centralia, Ill., killing a number of patients, he is said to have called up the nun in charge, passed himself off as a representative of the cardinal's office, kept pumping her for details which he needed, he said, to plan supplies for the survivors. On hearing that Millionaire Fight Promoter Tex Rickard was seriously ill, Romanoff promptly rang up Mrs. Rickard. "This is Governor Len Small of Illinois," he intoned. "I am distressed to hear of the illness...
...only incompletely, but it is a fascinating, often startlingly valid job of reapplication. Where it doesn't fit, we still have the original. Babe has not been so carried away with the modern parallel as to seriously distort the play, and in the second half he seems to have kept his modernizing to a minimum. Thus the limitation of the fascist parallel--its lack of a modern alternative into which Dionysus can fit--is never fully exposed, because the interpretation is correctly underplayed...
...Whatever kept audiences away from Agassiz has been keeping them away from other small theatres in the area: there are reports that theatre groups at Tufts and B.U. are in financial trouble...