Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote, the House rejected the language it has kept in the law since 1981 and instead endorsed a more liberal provision already passed by the Senate. An effort by conservatives to reverse the vote then failed...
Officials in West Berlin said Western tourists were allowed into East Berlin yesterday. They had been kept out since Thursday because of the anniversary celebrations...
...United States and other non-communist countries are overlooking the atrocious acts of genocide committed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. For four years they terrorized the Cambodian population, sent people off to labor camps and let thousands starve to death. The Khmer Rouge intentionally kept food rations low so that Cambodians would be too weak to organize resistance against them. At least 20,000 were arrested and tortured for political crimes. To this day, there are rooms full of skulls lying in anonymous heaps, dug from the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge...
...opaque blobs of gray and white, to the hair of a hunting dog's leg whose living animal nature gets its due in three long and five short strokes of the brush. He does not truckle to King, Infanta or Pope; he does not satirize the dwarfs and idiots kept for the court's amusement. Nothing human is alien to him. Everything is worthy of respect -- a respect whose sign is an unswerving attentiveness. The morality of his art is one of transparency and proud restraint. He was, as all who knew him agreed, a paragon of the phlegmatic temperament...
...sarcastic tone, Gorbachev said, "The machine doesn't work. Get out your old weapons." The Deputies waved the credentials cards traditionally used for voting. Determined as usual to advance perestroika, Gorbachev kept the Deputies after the session for a lecture and a demonstration of how the new system was supposed to work. This time the technicians remembered to turn on the power...