Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meticulous Kim kept careful records of the more than $500,000, usually in the form of $100 bills stuffed into a white envelope, that the Park regime slipped to Americans it hoped to influence. He recruited attractive Korean women, sometimes with the threat of deportation if they did not cooperate, to trap Representatives and Senators by sleeping with them. He also acted as his government's watchdog over more public South Korean lobbyists...
...overdosage causes doziness and mental lapses. Later Hughes began openly injecting himself?often in the groin?with hypodermics rilled with a clear fluid. Stewart and Margulis do not know what the syringes contained, but they observed the effects: Hughes would become drowsy and incoherent. His drugs, "my medication," were kept in a metal box that was always taken with him. Whenever he was flying from one hideaway to another, Hughes would clasp a Kleenex box containing his syringe and would take several shots in a five-or six-hour period...
Neither Stewart nor Margulis was a member of the ultrasecret inner circle of so-called executive assistants. These six men, five of them Mormons, kept a 24-hour-a-day watch over Hughes and screened all his communications. According to Stewart and Margulis, the executive aides acted in effect as his keepers, at salaries ranging as high as $110,000 a year. By contrast, Stewart and Margulis performed menial jobs at relatively low salaries?about $25,000 a year. (They will collect one-third each of the profits from the Phelan book.) They were on the perimeter of the inner...
John Holmes, the senior aide, swore that no logs were kept to record Hughes' movements. Ray Crawford, a key aide until 1970, said detailed accounts were kept. Holmes testified that Hughes wore a neat Vandyke. Crawford describes Hughes as having a long, scraggly beard and hair that reached below his shoulders...
...Fire the son of a bitch," Hughes had ordered. Then he added, as he usually did when someone had achieved close access to him, "but keep him on the payroll." By retaining people he had "fired" on his payroll, he kept a rein on them, so they would not disclose any of his secrets to the outside world...