Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election. Instead, though operating with a bare three-seat majority, Wilson had proved to be an able statesman who could handle his own left wing, was not afraid to slap down raise-happy trade unions. In Parliament his acerbic wit and quick thrusts had continually kept the Opposition off-balance. Heath had no such advantages. He had taken over a badly divided party only eight months ago, and not entirely succeeded in closing the rifts. As a leader, he did not begin to shed his image of aloofness until the last ten days of the campaign. By then...
...Breakfast. The Hueys swept back in to haul the troopers out, but were kept off by the intense Red fire. So instead, a full company of Flying Horsemen was helilifted in. Skyraiders and Hueys covered the Horsemen from the air, a battery of the Air Cav's 105-mm. howitzers was lifted into range to provide an all-night barrage, and another Air Cav company dropped in for breakfast with the defenders. That was enough for the enemy, who hastily retreated across the Cambodian border, leaving 158 dead...
...phonograph. "It was awful," she recalls. "After I got encased and began to harden, I couldn't feel my foot. It was numb. Then I couldn't move my hand. I began to itch. I knew this was an important piece, but all along I kept thinking, To hell with posterity...
...Well," said Ethel, "the exact same thing happened. The plaster hardened. I couldn't swallow. I couldn't talk. I kept moaning, hmmmmm, hmmmmm, hmmmmm! They knew I was suffering, but they made believe they couldn't hear...
...fine of 10 cents a day on overdue books that have not been recalled will be kept...