Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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During the long autumn of the election campaign. President Eisenhower tried to postpone making decisions on as many controversial problems as possible, to keep them from being distorted by partisan heat (as were Cuba and Quemoy-Matsu). Postponement has its price, and particularly in foreign affairs, as the Eisenhower Administration could see last week when in its last two months in office it tried to confront the serious threat to the stability of the dollar, and the question of nuclear individualism in Western Europe...
...token integration of Norfolk's public schools. With unfailing sympathetic words. Judge Hoffman ruled in case after case that Virginia's much-imitated pupil-placement system-a Governor-appointed state board with sweeping powers to locate students in specific schools-was an evasive effort to keep schools segregated. In February 1959, Norfolk gave up, assigned eight Negro pupils to white schools...
...Strategic Air Command. The Navy, claiming the need for seagoing expertise, wanted Polaris targeting left up to Navymen. In another day the fight would have boiled out into angry headlines. But Gates set up the interservice strategic target team, headed by SAC Commander General Thomas S. Power, to keep track of all U.S. strategic forces and make sure that every essential target is covered by one force or another at all times...
...comes the undulating grass country, rising in the north to the crusty, arid, mile-high floor and then to the hot Sahara's edge, where by day nomadic cattle herders bow to Mecca and muffle their faces against the sun and grit-filled harmattan winds with robes that keep out the bitter chill when the sun goes down...
...Abubakar borrows the Irish wife of a fellow minister to act as hostess. Up for prayers at 6:30, Abubakar breakfasts in time to arrive at his office precisely at 8:15, heads home again at 2:15 in the afternoon with enough folders full of state papers to keep him busy until bedtime. Once a heavy smoker, Abubakar swore off after his 1957 pilgrimage to Mecca, now combats the tensions of his job by chewing the bitter kola nuts that he keeps in the pocket of his long white riga...