Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Congo . . . The United States takes a most serious view of this action by the Soviet Union ... I urge the Soviet Union to desist. The United States in tends to give its support [to whatever action] the United Nations finds necessary within the limits of its charter to keep peace in this region...
...last week firing off notes urging the leaders of the neutralist nations to show up at the General Assembly, or stand revealed as no true peace lovers. So far, he had failed with the senior neutralist of them all-India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who still seemed disposed to keep his Sept. 19 date for a state visit to Pakistan. But Ghana...
...major element of the party from its founding. These, abetted by Communists and fellow travelers and organized by such left-wing Laborite M.P.s as Michael Foot and Anthony Greenwood, have seized on the "ban-the-bomb" emotionalism to attack the policies of the moderate leaders who have tried to keep British labor committed to Western collective defense...
Like Butterflies. Underground, the beleaguered Protestants struggled to keep the faith alive. Carrying slats of wood, groups would assemble by night in quarries and grottoes, and fit their boards together to make a pulpit. Other pulpits were made that could be instantly transformed into ladders at the approach of the authorities. Most Huguenot houses had hiding places built into the walls for fugitives like the young shepherd, Pierre Laporte, whose nom de guerre was "Roland...
...deeply religious artist, but what struck his contemporaries and swept his influence across Europe was his liberating naturalism. His predecessors, in an effort to keep their religious themes on a properly spiritual level, tended to idealize their figures. Van Eyck had a passion for detail, and his people -whether saints or not-were complete individuals. Landscape and still life came into their own; light and shadow played a more subtle role; the way was open for the time when the everyday mortal would become a worthy subject...