Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clients is Merlis Broussard, 45, a barrel-chested black construction worker who once helped dig a crayfish pond behind Chalin Perez's new home. They have just won a federal court suit to end the parish's method of selecting council members, which has long kept blacks from exercising political power...
...sharply down over a gravel pit before recovering. By Monday evening, with all going well, the balloonists were 600 miles northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, flying at 15,000 ft. The temperature was down to zero in the gondola, but angora long Johns and a portable heater kept the men from suffering frostbite. Their menus, chosen by their wives, consisted of a breakfast of hot coffee or cocoa with doughnuts and raisins; high-protein sardines and hot dogs later in the day; and plenty of vitamins...
...explosion-so forceful that inhabitants of the Lebanese capital mistook it for an earthquake-erupted shortly after midnight in an ammunition dump in the building's basement. Both the P.L.F. and Fatah kept offices in the building, but innocent people were sleeping in apartments upstairs. Rescue crews found the remains of two Lebanese families and of two young girls who had come to spend the fasting month of Ramadan with their grandmother...
...longtime protégé of late Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer was both a brilliant and ruthless politician. He kept his country at peace for twelve years. He launched a huge building program and virtually invented Dominican tourism, now a $90 million industry. But he permitted blatant corruption, and in recent years he allowed the economy, already suffering from a sharp drop in sugar prices, to falter. Of the country's 1.4 million workers, 20% are unemployed...
...strips on expanded news shows. New York Post Gossip Writer Diane Judge also went on the air to read her own column. Nonunion reporters at the Daily News passed the time at their 42nd Street offices by writing obituaries for future use. At the Times building across town, police kept an eye on the small group of picketers...