Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they kept pace with press briefings, government receptions and panel discussions, the tour members-some of them veterans of previous TIME trips -proved willing and capable newsmen. They took notes along the way, shot rolls of black and white and color film and, above all, asked questions...
...marked by a special brand of gilt-edged vulgarity. Saud was perhaps the leading exponent of the tradition. During his reign he maintained one of the more ostentatious harems in the Middle East: the number of concubines averaged from 80 to 120, and agents in Beirut and other capitals kept it well-stocked. To facilitate his choice of companions for the night, he reportedly installed closed-circuit television...
...throne room that he had had constructed in the hotel, followed by a minuscule lunch, a nap, and a relaxing hour or two with his daughters and their children. Dinner usually consisted of a glass of milk, and bedtime was before 11 p.m. In the past year, Saud kept two full-time doctors by his side; he suffered from assorted ills, including kidney and liver trouble, serious rheumatism and severely impaired eyesight, which forced him to wear dark glasses. Early in February, he had a mild heart attack, and his death was caused by a second such seizure...
...decision may well inflame political passions among the Dominicans, who have a historic distaste for presidential re-elections. It was shaped during the brutal reign of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who was elected President in 1930 and kept on getting himself or his confederates re-elected until assassins' bullets cut him down...
...Crimson kept the score close in the first half and trailed by only six points at halftime--39-33. But the Indians pulled away in the second half as four Harvard starters--Ernie Hardy, Chris Gallagher, Eric Gustavson, and Bob Kanuth--fouled out. Dartmouth ran its lead to 16 points at one time during the half...