Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come here with good will," Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong told the Americans. "President Carter obviously wants to solve the problems between us in a new spirit. We are ready." Replied United Auto Workers' president Leonard Woodcock, who led the U.S. party: "Too long have tragic events kept our countries apart...
...submarine cruising almost submerged trailed a slowly steaming American frigate, the U.S.S. Voge, for nearly an hour. Suddenly, the sub turned straight toward the Voge and sped up sharply. The American sailors, who photographed the sub as it charged toward them, waited for it to turn away. But it kept coming. Moving fast-about 17 knots-the sub slammed into the left quarter of the Voge, bounced off, then wallowed in the frigate's wake. The Voge limped off with one injured crewman and a gashed hull. The sub, with damage visible on its bow, deck, conning tower...
Guilty or not, the Polanski contretemps reveals much about the cocaine-snorting, "anything goes" sexuality of "the new Hollywood." While the movie community has largely kept silent, Polanski's boss at Columbia Pictures admits they have a "mess" on their hands. "Roman's got such a bad reputation for being a pervert film maker," laments Columbia Production Executive Bill Tennant, "he's going to be judged guilty by his work...
...much about it. Not even the city councilors, who wanted to go on record as having opposed the granting of a license, had much idea what they were trying to ban. Mavor Alfred E. Vellucci (who was actually in favor of granting the theater a license to show "Calcutta") kept referring to the mystery show as a movie. Councilor Leonard Russell kept denouncing the "Combat Zone type of show" as one that would "threaten the lives of hundreds of children...
...Crimson kept its lead as Peter Hilton put a 35-yard penalty kick clean through the uprights, to make...