Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desire of Mao and his closest associates to politicize the working masses and enable the Maoist leadership to recapture the straying devotion of his party. The Miltons cannot really explain how that desire was materially translated into the groups of Red Guards who took over the capital, who kept the population up at night with their loudspeakers blasting away at the ideological opponents; but it is clear they consider the dimensions of the revolution--which ultimately enveloped the national intelligentsia--to be the direct result of a power struggle within the highest echelons of the leadership, a struggle so violent...
...Wabanaki Indian from Maine, Fell says, has kept up a close correspondence with Fell, closing his letters in Iberic, a language the Indian has only recently learned
...have different physical demands-the 400 needs more speed, the 800 more strength-and because of the qualifying heats, require a runner to turn in seven world-class performances in seven days. None of this fazed Juantorena, whose biggest hazard might have been a crick in the neck-he kept looking over his shoulder for opposition...
...Rick Wohlhuter thought the muscular Cuban had played right into his hands by speeding up the race when there were still 400 meters to go. But when Wohlhuter, usually a consummate 800 strategist, tried to overtake him as they turned into the final stretch, Juantorena just kept pouring it on. Wohlhuter fell back to third place in fatigue, his face contorted with pain and defeat as Juantorena muscled across the finish line and then skipped on in celebration...
...years to training, warned, "There will be some big surprises in 1980, when we win even less than we did this year." Urging Government subsidies of $10,000 a year for top U.S. amateurs, Robinson added, "It's tough to beat athletes from other countries when they are kept like professionals." One U.S. gold medalist who disagreed was 400-meter Hurdler Edwin Moses (47.64 sec.), a physics major at Morehouse College in Atlanta. His view: "I run because I like...