Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rodino set up a special staff to study the question of impeachment, O'Neill kept badgering him regularly: "How do you think it's going? Are we moving?" When Rodino delayed too long in naming a special counsel, O'Neill delivered an ultimatum: "You've got to have your man before we go home for Christmas." In December Rodino named John Doar, who had O'Neill's approval because he was a Republican and thus could not be attacked for partisanship...
...Neill attended Roman Catholic schools. He was a casual student and, though he kept getting elected captain of his teams, an awkward athlete. Even so, local lore has it that he got his nickname as a young boy from one James Edward O'Neill, who batted an eye-popping .492 for the old St. Louis Browns in 1887. Those were the days when bases on balls were counted as hits in players' averages, and O'Neill was renowned for "tipping." off so many pitches that hurlers eventually walked...
...various nationalities, missing while on assignment in Cambodia, may still be alive. Last week CBS'S Walter Cronkite, who heads the Committee to Free Journalists Held in Southeast Asia, announced that "we believe they are held by the Khmer Rouge, the major insurgent group in Cambodia. They are kept on the move between prison compounds. Their exact identities are not known, nor is the state of their health." This new information partially corroborates previous intelligence reports that longhaired, bearded prisoners have been seen by Cambodian peasants near guerrilla hideouts along the South Vietnamese border...
...Detroit policemen on their downtown beat were ticketing a man peddling rings on the sidewalk. Then up popped this limey photographer who kept snapping away at them. Asked for identification, the fellow could only produce an out-of-date press card. At headquarters, the suspicious cops satisfied themselves that "Tony Charles Snow-down [sic]" was not the peddler's accomplice. They issued him a temporary press card and prepared to let him go. Then someone did a double take. Hastily, Princess Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, was whisked into Police Commissioner Philip G. Tannian's office...
Perhaps Copeland's reputation as a former CIA employee who has ostensibly kept abreast of agency affairs impressed the Times. Other acquaintances describe Copeland, 57, as a man who has acquired some status as a CIA expert by trading on his intelligence background. He is readily accessible to journalists seeking material on the CIA. Recalls one: "Miles is the only man I know who uses the CIA as a cover." Nonetheless, Editor Keren insists: "We still believe the Times account to be correct...