Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boca cerrada " (closed mouth). Prager did find that many citizens were reluctant to speak with reporters. Suárez too has avoided the press, although he granted Prager an off-the-record interview at Moncloa Palace a few days before the election. Sums up Prager: "Suárez has kept his counsel and his cool. He is plainly aware that Spain has changed and continues to change, that the new look in the society is more than cosmetic, and that the new look in politics will have to follow suit...
...Earl Hill Jr., serving a life sentence for killing a policeman and raping his wife. But one of the mysteries of the break was that the other five apparently were little more than casual acquaintances of Ray's. They were all criminals with records of violence, and Ray normally kept apart from such convicts. Although Ray was thought to have been the first man up the ladder, prison officials believed that the leader of the group might have been Larry Hacker, 32, a man with a spider tatooed on his arm who was serving a sentence of 28 years...
...Dutch hamlet of De Punt, enveloping the motionless yellow train. Inside, nine jittery Moluccan hijackers and 51 exhausted hostages were beginning their 20th day of cold fear together, a grisly endurance record of its kind. At a primary school in the nearby village of Bovensmilde, four other Moluccan terrorists kept four schoolteachers prisoner. Deployed around both the train and the school was an estimated 2,000-man army of crack Dutch commando marines, a special squad of sharpshooters, and armored military-police units...
...stood up. But so effective were the terrifying roars of the jetcraft that the great majority of the prisoners instinctively dove for the ground. Summed up Air Force Major W.A. Blaauw: "It was a nice operation. You must count on some casualties in operations like this, but they were kept very low, and it was a great success...
...bookkeeping was vague, his meanness unpleasant-it was Vollard who kept Gauguin on short rations in Tahiti-and his narcissism immense. "The most beautiful woman who ever lived," said Picasso, "never had her portrait painted, drawn or engraved more often than Vollard-by Cézanne, Renoir, Roussel, Bonnard, Forain, almost everybody in fact. He had the vanity of a woman, that man." But he also had an exquisitely tuned eye and a great deal of patience; the combination enabled Vollard, as publisher, to master the innumerable problems involved in producing major collaborations between artist and text...