Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon has kept a grim watch at the hospital, leaving only for brief periods of rest. At the doctors' suggestion, she has not returned to San Clemente, 50 miles away. Julie and Tricia flew in to comfort their mother and help answer the calls from old family friends, including Betty Ford. Other people phoned the hospital offering to donate blood, but all such offers were politely declined, since the hospital had a plentiful supply of the type A-positive blood that Nixon needs...
...blood cells. "If proper measures had not been available and instituted, he may have died," Lungren said later. Nixon had received a total of six pints of blood by week's end, and, though he was out of shock within three hours, the apparent continued loss of blood kept him in danger...
...Magruder provided some new details damaging to the defense. In response to the quizzing of Assistant Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, he repeated his insistence that Mitchell had "reluctantly" approved the bugging of then Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien's office. He testified too that he had kept Defendant H.R. Haldeman's assistant, Gordon Strachan, informed of the bugging plans so that Haldeman could relay information "as he saw fit" to President Richard Nixon...
...strong sense of nationhood. Even children who have never been there talk vividly about life in the Old City of Jerusalem or the beauty of Mount Carmel and the orange groves of Jaffa. In part, the Palestinians' collective memory of homeland and the dream of return are kept alive by a large body of nostalgic Arabic poetry, written by angry young lyricists who know both the harshness of Israeli prisons and the despair of life in refugee camps. Some of these Palestinian "songs of liberation...
Rosovsky and Martin said they do not know what the operating costs of the library would be, or how long it would be kept closed after it is built...