Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point, Kissinger insisted that he had nothing to do with seeking medical help for the Shah in the U.S. Kissinger was in Europe from Oct. 9 to Oct. 23, when the Shah's illness became a backstage diplomatic issue. Kissinger said he kept in touch with Rockefeller's office while traveling and acknowledged that he would have sought the Shah's admittance for medical treatment if he had been...
...through the tube. By last week Hansen was more than electronic news-he was entertainment. He was being filmed for the Today show and Good Morning America. There was plenty of criticism voiced along this strange journey, but attention is often what registers on television. That Hansen had and kept...
...prosecution is warranted." Oddly enough, the terms of that very same act prevented Civiletti from learning enough about the charges to come to such a judgment. He could not grant witnesses immunity, for instance, nor haul them before a grand jury to testify under oath. Hence, Civiletti reluctantly kept the case open. "But for the act," said a Department of Justice official, "this would never have gone be yond an Assistant U.S. Attorney...
Phnom-Penh's business district can hardly be said to conduct any business at all. The little ateliers where workmen hammered tin, ingenious mechanics kept cars and trucks running with paper clips and baling wire, and rows of women bent over sewing machines have all been destroyed or closed. Until 1975 the Ruseokeo textile plant on the outskirts of the city employed 600 workers making cotton cloth. With help from OXFAM, the Oxford-based relief agency, it has since reopened, but only half of its looms are being used. Reason: a lack of spare parts for the steam boiler...
...South Pole in a Ford trimotor called the Floyd Bennett. Flight 901 was scheduled to be far more comfortable, cruising at 35,000 ft., well above any turbulence, descending only in spots to 6,000 ft. for a closer look at the scenery. All the while, the cabin crew kept the sightseers plied with plentiful food and drink. Lunch offered a choice of Tournedos Rossini or Chicken Sauvaroff, plus a special meringue dessert named Peach Erebus. That dish was to be served as the aircraft passed one of the most spectacular sights of the trip: 12,400-ft. Mount Erebus...