Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...assemblage of Communists, Socialists, ex-Christian Democrats and assorted strays, Milazzo spent most of his time trying to defend his two-vote majority in Sicily's regional Assembly. He was under constant fire from both the Vatican and the Christian Democratic national government of Premier Antonio Segni. To keep his Communist support, Milazzo slipped Reds into government jobs all over Sicily. Fortnight ago, dismayed by the turn of events, four of Milazzo's supporters deserted, thereby wiping out his Assembly majority...
...Yemen who is falling back. Early last year the old (68) tyrant had to go to Italy for medical treatment. While he was away, the heir apparent, Crown Prince Badr, unable to hold the warring Yemeni tribesmen in line, emptied the royal treasury in paying out great sums to keep their allegiance. When the Imam got back last August, he had to retrench. He sent home some 70 Egyptian technicians brought in by his son, stopped the costly flow of rifles to the south. The British Governor of Aden, Sir William Luce, an old adversary of the Imam, astutely decided...
Behind the fabled artists in the Metropolitan Opera's long history from Caruso to Nilsson, have stood thousands of other, anonymous singers needed to keep the show on the stage. They were the members of the chorus, providing night after night the necessary Egyptian commoners, the Parisian tradespeople, the Spanish factory girls and Russian peasants...
...wall to beat Venezuela in the bottom of the ninth, he was waylaid by a delirious mob on the third-base line. Frantic hands clutched his sleeve, pounded his back, hoisted him high and then dropped him. Waiting at home plate, Umpire Pat Orr fumed as he fought to keep his feet in the crush. "Be patient, Pat," shouted Panama's third baseman Hector Lopez (New York Yankees) as he struggled near by. "He'll make it sooner or later...
...than 100 mobile repair units and 8,000 workers-and a 1959 gross of $132 million. All this has made Joseph Neckermann a millionaire: he lives in a 16-room Frankfurt mansion with his wife and three children, indulges his hobby of riding with a stable of prizewinners. To keep his empire humming, he works 12 hours a day, often sleeps on an office couch...