Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even though the beatings, threats and psychological pressures given Bucher and his crew were so horrifying as to stun the world anew last week. To some extent, the techniques consist of old-fashioned torture protracted and refined, in a mixture of mental and physical ordeals. The P.O.W. may be kept in utter isolation or thrust into a cell group without a shred of privacy. He may be forced to sit or stand in the same position for hours on end until his bodily functions go awry. His interrogators may keep him constantly unnerved, preventing him from sleeping, exploiting his normal...
...have visited Cuba unintentionally since the end of 1967-nearly four times the number officially permitted to go there since Castro overthrew Batista in 1959. Knut Hammarskjold, director-general of the International Air Transport Association and a nephew of the late U.N. Secretary-General, visited Havana last week but kept mum about what progress he had made...
Crimson coach Bob Harrison kept the team practicing throughout the exam period, something of an innovation for Harvard basketball. He reports the team fit and eager, ready to meet the crucial weekend...
...such a policy, the Personnel Office should inaugurate a vigorous and continuing program of recruitment in the poorer neighborhoods (black and Spanish-American) where barriers of discrimination overlaid by the habits of defeatism make economic advancement particularly difficult. Local employment agencies in these areas should be regularly visited and kept well-informed as to job opportunities at Harvard...
Aiken said that large lecture classes have kept Harvard students from having access to their teachers. But at Brandeis, there are few classes with more than 60 or 70." He called Brandeis "A new, smaller, more negotiable, and more friendly university...