Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definite program you can judge," complains Patt Derian, a leader of the Mississippi Democrats' liberal wing. Moreover, Finch has turned off much of the state's conservative press by refusing to hold press conferences and declining to appear on TV panels unless certain "obnoxious" reporters are kept...
...regime fails to prevent a clash between rival political groups, Spain's military commanders may feel compelled to step in. Although kept deliberately apolitical by Franco, the officer corps is believed to be solidly loyal to el Caudillo's plans for the succession. Unlike Portugal's officers, they have not been radicalized by exposure to Marxist rebels in a losing African colonial war. The new King, in fact, is reportedly popular with the officers...
Deadly Risk. "It's a standoff," said one police officer as the long siege of the kidnap hideout began. While a spotter plane kept the house under constant surveillance, armored cars were stationed outside the front door, and more than 200 soldiers and police surrounded the floodlit house. Loudspeaker appeals for the kidnapers' surrender were met with a broadside of obscene oaths from Gallagher. A psychologist was rushed to the scene to listen to conversations in the besieged bedroom that were monitored by sophisticated electronic equipment borrowed from Scotland Yard. Herrema was heard to call hoarsely for food...
...denying the fact, however, that Wixted is the main man for Penn, and that without him, the Quakers' chances of winning today are quite slim. Stranger things have happened, though Last night, for example, there was this guy masquerading as Dave Schulz, the Philadelphia Flyers' bad boy, who kept hitting everyone over the head with a real hockey stick while yelling "April Fools...
Last year, when I would write these listings, I kept pushing people to go see the exhibit of Goya's prints which was presented last year at the Museum of Fine Arts. Well, I'm going to sound like last year all over again here, because the Boston campus of UMass is exhibiting, in their Harbor Gallery, a selection of prints from Goya's series The Disasters of War. In this series, Goya depicts some of the most brutal and horrific war scenes imaginable, and succeeds in producing an extremely eloquent anti-war statement, one of the strongest...