Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to relieve the pressure with gallows humor. Members of the Agriculture Department sent out invitations for a 51st birthday celebration, saying that "the party will be either for Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, or it will be for Bob Bergland." It turned out to be the former: Bergland kept his job. (So did another Cabinet member who had been widely rumored to be due for replacement, Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps.) On Capitol Hill, when Blumenthal returned from a break during a hearing before the House Budget Committee, a reporter cracked: "At least you came back." Replied Blumenthal: "What...
...this time, I expected my knowledgeable mentor to ask me for a wager on the game. But the people around me just chuckled, and my new-found friend kept rambling, preaching the ethics of the day, the vices of wagering and the necessity of listening to his counseling...
...next day, I kept a careful eye on Michigan Avenue, wondering if some die-hard Bleacher Bums would make my friend keep his promise. He never showed--not that I really expected...
...behind the President's surprise visits to the Fishers and the Porterfields. Aides say those calls were planned at the same time as the summit itself; Carter wanted to sample the views of middle-class citizens after spending a week with the nation's elite. But the plans were kept so secret that the hosts had no idea how or why they were singled out. And the White House declined...
...protection, federal officials kept him in solitary confinement at Danbury Prison and then secretly moved him to the federal prison in San Diego. Freed in March, Galante returned to New York...