Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrugged off many of the complaints -but not all. Said he: "It helps us see the flaws. Jimmy's going to have to keep the pressure on Ford. It might mean a few mistakes, but that can't scare us. If Abe Lincoln hadn't kept shoving, the South might have won the war. His generals all wanted to sit still-the way Ford sits in the White House...
...densely populated African countries (total pop. 8,300,000 in an area smaller than West Virginia), are too wrapped up in their own tribal rivalries to pay much attention to tensions elsewhere between blacks and whites. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the grand old man of African liberation, has kept Kenya out of the Rhodesian confrontation, perhaps because of the frustration he experienced while trying to mediate the Angolan civil war last year. Uganda plays a noisy but purely verbal role in the southern Africa drama. Uganda's dictator Idi Amin Dada regularly threatens to dispatch a "suicide battalion...
...meanders, circling around and turning in on itself - letting its contours be defined by the chaos of the heroine's psyche. Italicized chunks of Joan Foster's latest gothic romance pop up just when one is expecting the next chapter in her life. The reader is kept off balance by jagged shifts from the comfortable ordinariness of situation comedy to the casual cruelty of slapstick farce to the gripping panic of surreal nightmare...
...North Carolina and Virginia has been able to build on a nucleus of "mountain Republicans," whose loyalty stems from their support of freedom for the slaves (they didn't own any) and the Union during the Civil War. In these latter places, the Republican party has, in large measure, kept its traditional stance as a center-right group on economic measures while maintaining an occasionally liberal approach to the race issue. But in the rest of the region, where Republicanism grew up as an odd coalition of lower class racists and country club Goldwaterites, the party is an expression...
Still, Howe kept his counsel, though his poll ratings dropped steadily. Mormon Church leaders issued a statement regretting the "embarassment" caused the church by the whole incident. And the rumors started flowing...