Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partaking more from the cup of corruption than is normal even in the Thai tradition of doing business cum government, harvested close to $140 million, kept some 100 "minor wives" (i.e., mistresses). The King, in contrast, is something of a Buddhist puritan, as well as being totally devoted to his Queen-a monogamousness almost incredible in Siamese monarchs. His grandfather, for example, had 92 wives...
...Kentucky Derby leading every step of the way. But Jockey Don Brumfield kept insisting that wasn't Kauai King's natural way of running. In winning seven of twelve previous races, the dark bay, three-year-old colt had come from behind every time. In the Preakness last week at Pimlico, under Brumfield's sure rein, Kauai King reverted to his old ways. The result was even more impressive than at Churchill Downs...
...lung surgeons, caused a public outcry earlier this month when he suggested that a person should be declared dead when a flat EEG pattern shows that his brain has definitely and irrevocably ceased to function. Dr. Crafoord was concerned about truly hopeless cases, but the kin of patients being kept alive with mechanical aids jumped to the conclusion that he meant the devices should be shut off, the patients declared dead, and their organs used for transplants...
...There it swings, pendulum fashion, with each heartbeat. Though the veteran sometimes suffers from short ness of breath and dizziness, his main trouble is anxiety. And as with four others among the 40 cases, say the investigators, it is the anxiety, not the metal in his heart, that has kept him from working...
...Funny Thing's" funniest things happened when Paar kept himself offscreen. Elliott Reid did an inventive impression of an entire convention, including chairman, delegates, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and the BBC. An old newsreel showed Bess Truman hopelessly trying to christen an airplane-bopping the nose a dozen times until a technician took pity on her and hammered the bottle apart. And in a technically adroit sequence, famous faces were shown orating silently as the sound track played Tony Bennett's rendition of If I Ruled the World. It began with Johnson, moved to Goldwater, then to such...