Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Western statesmen expect no dramatic agreements, but never during the cold war has the West, in moments of realism, expected any sweeping settlement of East-West conflicts. The hope underlying U.S. policy has been that if negotiation could keep resolving crises without war, internal changes within Russia would gradually transform it into a less monolithic society, ruled by a less hostile government...
Roving police squads sped through the main streets of Cape Town itself, swinging sjamboks (leather whips) and grabbing "intimidators" who, according to Justice Minister François Erasmus, "stood at street corners giving certain signs" to keep Africans from going to work. Near Durban, African stay-at-homes stoned and beat other natives returning from work in town. Black police carrying Zulu-style shields and assagais (short spears), moved in, killing four and wounding...
...week's end, the government had 100,000 men under arms to keep internal peace. This was almost half the size of the entire force mustered by South Africa for service in World War II. It seemed a fair measure of the cost, in time, money and peace of mind, of maintaining apartheid's unequal balance...
...remarkable degree Paul had the grace-especially needed by a missionary -to keep his heart in heaven and his feet firmly planted on the ground. In / Corinthians, after his wise and tolerant sermon on the diversity of spiritual gifts, after his famed passage on love and a triumphant challenge to death ("Where is thy sting?"), he ends with a matter-of-fact "Now concerning the collection...
...There he reads his mail, follows up on ideas generated by conversations or by his reading, goes to lunch, returns to the office at about 3 o'clock. "I never make up my mind what I'll write about until then " says Krock. "I try to keep close to the news so my piece will be as fresh as the news story on Page...