Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STORY is of a search, of course, of someone always heading somewhere else. "Kimberly always had to go overboard," Harley says. "She kept trying to get into the center of life and kept getting let down by it." The winter of 1968-69, Kimberly was in Ann Arbor, and it was there that she lost herself if she had not sometime before...
...there are presently about 200,000 political prisoners in South Viet Nam, that seventy-year-old women and fifteen-year-old children are tortured when suspected of sympathizing with "the other side," that thousands of people--men and women--are imprisoned in tiger cages, and that those who are kept in the cages for a few years experience atrophy of the leg muscles and are unable ever to walk again. I learned that lime is used to "control" the prisoners in tiger cages so that many prisoners emerge not only paralyzed but blind and burned as well. I learned that...
Radcliffe's number one, Ruth Stevens, found Princeton's Wendy Zaharko a deservedly formidable opponent. Stevens kept a cool head and delivered some well-placed rail shots, but fell in three smooth games, 15-3, 15-3, 15-7, to Zaharko's razor-sharp accuracy and powerful hits. Zaharko won the women's national intercollegiate championship...
...compile lists of their executive jobs and identify people who have the potential to fill them in the future. (Exxon defines an executive as anyone earning $25,000 a year or more; some 2,900 of its 150,000 employees around the world fit that category.) Similar lists are kept all the way up to the top of the empire. In New York, each Exxon director compiles a brief list of executives who are potential future members of the board...
...response was quick in coming. In a statement issued to Western correspondents last week, he identified Novosti as a "reliable branch" of the secret police and accused Soviet authorities of "standing on their lies behind a fortress of newsprint." He declared that "world public opinion has thus far kept them from killing the author of Gulag or even from imprisoning him. That would indeed be a confirmation of the book. But there remains the time-honored method of slander and personal vilification that is now being vigorously pursued...