Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going again. "I said to myself, 'I got to go through with it.' But I kept wondering...
...Weizman's previous visits to Cairo (along a flight route that he jocularly refers to as "the Weizman corridor"), the Egyptians had allowed him to mingle with the masses. This time they kept him virtually out of sight of both the press and the public. Apparently the Egyptians did not want the Israelis to exploit the visit as evidence that Jerusalem is growing more flexible in its pursuit of peace; indeed, the Cairo government emphatically denied Israeli reports that the visit marked a resumption of formal negotiations...
...explain how, though the implicit thought was that the Church might be used as an intermediary-as indeed it has offered to be in several terrorist cases before. The government kept a strict official silence on the letter. But after deliberations, the ruling Christian Democrats, as well as the Communists and other parties, agreed that the answer to negotiating with the kidnapers must...
...forced Empain to remain inside an unlit camping tent. He spent his lonely hours making the few mental notes that he could-two dogs barking, a child crying upstairs, some cracks in a plaster wall he could see. Heavy chains were padlocked around his neck, and the temperature was kept frigid. At mealtime one of the gang would alert the prisoner of his approach by coughing; Empain would then have to draw a hood over his head and cough to indicate that he was wearing it. His food came from tin cans, which the kidnapers tossed into the backyard when...
...most humiliating injury was suffered by Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda and his government. "I didn't sleep very well last night," admitted Fukuda after the disturbance. Irritated by the continuing demonstrations that have kept the completed airport idle since 1973-at a cost of $100,000 a day in maintenance and interest payments on construction loans -the Prime Minister had flatly declared that "Japan's prestige is at stake" and insisted that Narita would open for business in April. Now it could take months to repair the damage...