Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands in her pockets, her black purse on her arm. She chatted with San Francisco Examiner Reporter Carol Pogash, who had known her from the food program set up by Randolph Hearst, Pogash's former publisher. "You know, the Secret Service visited my house yesterday," Moore blurted out. "They kept me for an hour and questioned me. You know, they could have kept me for 72 hours if they had wanted to." Pogash thought she knew Moore too well to take her seriously and did not want to encourage her nonstop chitchat...
...Force One touches down at the airport, the half a dozen or so agents aboard alight first and are met at the ramp by a platoon of their colleagues. (The size of a White House detail?always a closely kept secret?varies from occasion to occasion.) The President's limousine, driven by an agent, awaits him at the ramp. The chief of the detail rides next to the driver; the President, usually with an adviser or a local dignitary, sits in back. Directly behind the President's car is the "Queen Mary," an open car with running boards and hand...
Nothing ever seemed to work out for her. She was married to four men, one of them twice, and abandoned three children, whom her parents finally adopted after frustrated attempts to have her arrested for failure to support them. She kept her fourth child, Frederick, 9, the offspring of her marriage to a former movie sound man named John Aalberg, whom Moore liked to describe to friends as "a biggie in Los Angeles-you'd know him." After the breakup of her most recent marriage, to a San Francisco-area doctor, she was forced to leave...
...crowds. As in most European countries, local forces are expected to provide additional security forces as needed. At Elysee Palace, a small unit of seven to nine men guard the gate, while the rest of the palace is watched over by a dozen or so city policemen. Files are kept on potential assassins and all threats are investigated, but, says one senior ministry official with a shrug, "The danger here, like everywhere, is the nut-and that we can't protect against...
Congress approved the loan guarantee and the aircraft production lines kept humming. But the Emergency Loan Guarantee Board (ELGB), created to oversee the Lockheed loan, received no information about bribery payments uncovered no traces of the corporation's questionable overseas sales habits. William E. Simon, Secretary of the Treasury Department and chairman of the ELGB, told the Banking Committee at the August 25 hearings that he and co-members Ray Garrett, Jr., chairman of the SEC, and Arthur F. Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, were "distressed" at the new disclosures. But Simons hedged on Proxmire's recommendation that...