Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...They keep children awake," cried Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Adjuring their lordships to moderate their indignation. Lord Taylor finally moved a compromise: ban the Good Humor bells before noon and after 7 p.m., and thereby save the country from the worst of it. After two hours and some 23 speeches, the House passed the bill as amended. Grumbled Earl Attlee. author of the welfare state and liberator of India: "Before we assent to these bells, I think we should know a little more...
...Antonio Carrillo Flores, explained that his nation's recently expressed sympathy for the ideals of the Cuban revolution does not mean approval of "the procedure or methods she is employing." Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt said that Latin American democracies must take charge of telling the Soviet Union to "keep hands off America"' -though to him the first order of hemisphere business was to cope with the Caribbean threat posed by the Dominican Republic Dictator, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, whose agents last month tried to assassinate Betancourt...
...delegate, the International Sugar Council met last week to rejigger world export quotas in Cuba's favor to make up for the loss of the U.S. market. The council authorized other nations, including Soviet Russia, to increase their purchases by 1.250.000 tons. In effect, the new quotas will keep Cuban sugar exports (and employment of Cuban sugar workers) near normal, though Cuba will still lose the extra $150 million the U.S. previously paid above world prices. The council's fast reshuffling of trade discouraged buyers' hopes that unallotted quotas would depress prices. On the contrary, the world...
...critics, who claim that he stripped Callas of every cent she made and prodded her into her notorious tigress behavior. But whatever a husband's shortcomings, the care and feeding of a diva is no easy task. One veteran recalls his routine before each performance: "I keep all windows shut, even in summer. I also make sure my wife eats no soups, pasta or heavy foods. I avoid smoking and refrain from doing or saying anything that could upset her. We even stop making love...
Though the U.S. weather satellite Tiros I still circles the earth every 99 minutes, it is electronically dead. Yet during its active life of 78 days, Tiros I transmitted 22,952 cloud-cover pictures that still keep meteorologists in a state of round-eyed euphoria. Never before had earthmen seen so sweeping a view of their planet's splotchy atmosphere...