Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Lest his customers think that he is throwing in the pencil, Gallup later declared that he would keep on polling right up to election time, warned nervously that voter opinion has a way of shifting in the closing days of a campaign, as Gallup sorrowfully learned...
Nixon lieutenants read off hopeful reports based on a survey of Republican leaders around the country, but a grimness hovered over the meeting. Only three weeks before the showdown, Richard Nixon's campaign was in trouble. His basic campaign theme-maturity and experience to cope with Khrushchev and keep the peace-had failed to stir any surge among the voters. The whiff of recession in the autumn air was weakening the second half of the G.O.P. "peace and prosperity" claim. Most worrisome of all was the mounting evidence of a wide Roman Catholic swing to Democrat Jack Kennedy...
...speech he defined national security as having a defense strong enough to scare off any would-be attackers. He said the United States has such a defense today, and that he could help the country keep it. He cited his membership on various Congressional committees on armament as evidence of this ability...
Verwoerd must struggle on, now that he is committed to carry apartheid to its conclusion. He must try to keep the two great. White sections--Afrikaners and Englishmen--together. He must try to get South Africa readmitted to the Commonwealth as a racist republic. He must meet the challenge of economic, and perhaps, a physical intervention from the Black states of Africa...
Even with the help of Sabre jets, armored cars, and sten guns, the White Government cannot keep the Black majority down forever...