Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...armored limousine, one of two Government gas guzzlers kept in California, Carter headed next to the studios of KNXT-TV for a locally televised reprise of his successful national call-in program. Sitting on an uncomfortably high stool, he fielded about 30 questions from a live studio audience of 200 and, via five TV cameras, from passers-by at suburban shopping centers, sidewalks and the U.C.L.A. campus. The toughest challenge came from Birdell Moore, a director of the Watts Health Foundation, who sought assurances that the Administration would appoint more blacks to top Government jobs. Said she: "We didn...
...Frost kept probing for Nixon's view of the limits on presidential power. If burglary is all right, why not murder? "Ah, there are degrees, ah, there are nuances, ah, ah, which are difficult to explain," replied Nixon. He said that it might have been better to kill Hitler before he could order the murder of millions of Jews. Frost reminded Nixon that domestic dissidents were hardly comparable to the perpetrators of the Holocaust. Nixon finally agreed that only "the President's judgment" determined what was legal under this Nixonian doctrine of presidential supremacy...
...stopped putting tabasco sauce on everything he ate for dinner. He took down all pictures of Chavez and the Boycott Gallo posters from his wall, but he left up the big black eagle because it impressed all the rich preppie women he started bringing back to his room. He kept telling hemself he didn't have to worry about selling out the movement, because the people he did the town with never stooped so low as to drink Gallo, anyway...
...were mean to him, but when he did things like tell them shyly of a waitress at Brighams with whom he was madly in love (for two weeks, until she told him bluntly she never wanted to see him again), or when he decided to buy piranha (and then kept them in his room--Sam and Mark could hear him at night talking to them), or when he listened over and over again to a single passage from a Bartok concerto--well, it was hard to resist laughing a little...
Inside, the gathering was a typical college party only more so. Everyone had Levis on, and the style in footwear dictated topsiders or Adidas. Almost everyone circulated with a beer in one hand. Hair was neatly styled. Shirts were happily-colored, although in a conservative way. The men kept on their nylon jackets, as though they had just arrived and might leave any minute. The jackets told people at a glance what college they attended...