Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...waiting newsmen, peppery, popular little Antoine Pinay gave his own blunt version of his ouster. Torn between awareness of the public confidence that Pinay inspires and impatience with Pinay's questioning of De Gaulle's loyalty to the Western alliance, De Gaulle had sought to keep Pinay in the Cabinet by offering him the job of minister in charge of "longterm national policy." Snorted Pinay: "They wanted me to supervise our future but keep hands off the present . . . In the end they heaped me with flowers and chucked...
...some must be gone around, and a good road must be built as the advance proceeds. In some places there will be short cuts, but in general the going will be rough." Rough or smooth, short cut or direct path, Kishi on his record, can be depended upon to keep climbing...
...peace. As the fortunes of war worsened, he reacted just as had his Choshu clansmen in the affair of Shimonoseki Strait. At a Cabinet meeting in April 1944 he told Tojo: "Saipan is Japan's lifeline. If Saipan falls, surrender. It is the silliest thing on earth to keep fighting after that." Tojo shouted angrily: "Don't poke your nose into the affairs of the supreme command!" Thirteen days after the bloody U.S. conquest of Saipan, Tojo's Cabinet fell...
...with the U.S. is unpalatable, cutting the quota might spur such a reprisal as abrogating the treaty giving the U.S. the Guantanamo naval base, or might actually strengthen Castro's support by increasing anti-U.S. sentiment. Chairman Harold Cooley of the House Agriculture Committee would like to keep the quota law on a year-to-year basis. Another talked-of solution: a bill giving the President the authority to change quotas at will...
...Umrath started investing when he arrived in the U.S., during the Depression picked up blue-chip stocks at bargain-basement prices, explained last week that he was giving his fortune to education rather than to charities because "I am my brother's keeper, and the best way to keep one's brother is to make him self-sufficient...