Word: kept
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When he responded that he only wanted to talk to the people inside, he said, the police officer grasped him in an armlock and put him in a paddy wagon. Koblitz was kept in jail for two hours after his arrest and for three hours after his trial. He was then released from the Charles St. jail...
Only Instrument. The odds have all along been with the Prince. Franco's relations with Don Juan are cool, the Caudillo has never forgiven the Pretender for a 1945 statement that disapproved of Franco's policies. Don Juan has been considerably less critical since then, but has kept in close touch with opposition circles in Spain from his court-in-exile at the Villa Giralda in the Portuguese coastal resort of Estoril. Many Spaniards consider Don Juan a moderate, even a liberal, who as constitutional monarch would probably not. go along with many authoritarian practices of the Franco...
Like many wartime pilots, Kerkorian started his own little airline after the war. His capital investment was $17,000. The company, Los Angeles Air Service, kept busy mainly by flying gamblers to Las Vegas. Kerkorian got to know them and their town well...
...Pewter. Treated warily by Congress, the academy on at least one occasion survived an appropriations ballot by a single vote. Fortunately, the performance of West Point officers during America's various wars kept the school from being abolished. In the War of 1812, while the militia (except for Jackson's defense of New Orleans) was a disgrace to the nation, not a single fort constructed by West Point graduates fell into the hands of the British...
...long as, next time, more color cameras are on board. For despite a few tedious stretches necessarily involved in transversing the macromiles, Apollo 11 carried off a splendid show. Despite the billions it cost, it was worth it. As even the usually jaded Walter Cronkite kept repeating Sunday afternoon, "Oh, boy!" Yes, Walter, for once we agree. Oh, boy! is correct...