Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary Melvin Laird and Veteran G.O.P. Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow. When the consultants adjourned, exhausted, they were still uncertain whether the President had made up his mind. Not until they reconvened four hours later did Ford's final choice emerge, and then only obliquely: in his questions, the President kept coming back to Dole...
...Government spending: "My home-town newspaper, the Russell Record, once reported on a conscientious Congressman who kept having a recurrent nightmare in which he dreams that all the money he is spending...
JOHN SEARS, 36, gained considerable respect from both sides as a shrewd campaign strategist, although his reputation suffered when the Schweiker gambit failed. Sears also made the questionable decisions that kept Reagan out of such big-state primaries as New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, on the theory that powerful party organizations would ensure rich delegate harvests for Ford. Some Reagan supporters faulted Sears for making a floor test on a procedural matter (whether Ford should have had to name his running mate in advance) rather than an ideological issue like detente. When this second gamble failed, Reagan was through...
...nasty jellyfish stings, the actress's worst moment came during a subaqueous scene with Co-Star Nick Nolte that called for her to lose her mouthpiece and head for the surface. "His bubbles came up from beneath me and I couldn't see anything," she recalled. "I kept trying to find the damn regulator and for a couple of seconds I thought, 'Uh-oh, this is a damn silly way to go.' " Adds Bisset unnecessarily: "I'm not a very good swimmer...
Poland's Communist leader Edward Gierek could hardly forget that he had been swept into power in 1970 by a wave of riots against rising food prices. So, for more than five years, he kept prices frozen even while wages rose by 40%. Such an artificial situation could not last indefinitely, and Gierek suddenly announced in June that the prices of many staples would go up an average 60%. Once again the restive Poles started fighting back...