Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Disarmament in this day would increase, not diminish, the danger of war. Today's weapons are too destructive to use, so they stand poised and quiet; this is our strange climate, when arms are safer than no arms. If modern arms make war unlikely, had we not better keep them until we have found the political means of making war unnecessary...
Late last week De Gaulle cracked down on this insubordination, ordered his Ministers to keep silent about the negotiations. "Over the Algerian affair," said De Gaulle icily, "the people of Metropolitan France are entirely behind...
Militarily, the F.L.N. rebels were at a low ebb. F.L.N. terrorism, which as late as 1957 killed scores of Algerian civilians every week, is now confined to occasional and increasingly infrequent bombings. Some 20,000 well-equipped F.L.N. fighters stationed in Tunisia still keep 35,000 French troops tied up along the electrified Morice Line, but rebel breakthrough attempts are costly and seldom successful. Inside Algeria, rebel units that in early 1958 were big enough to fight pitched battles with crack French outfits are now reduced to 30 or 40 men apiece, and religiously flee all contact with French troops...
...Judah had worked hard to make his capital presentable. The girls who staff the city's 5,000 bordellos were ordered not to call to passing delegates. Wandering cows and insistent beggars who normally clog the streets were hustled out of town. Haile Selassie also arranged to keep from delegates the nasty story of the massacre at the town of Yirga-Alam last March, when his police shot down hundreds of peasants who revolted against their feudal landlords...
Patterson's strategy was built around two facts spotted in the first fight: offensively, Johansson needed to get set to throw his paralyzing right hand; defensively, he moved back quickly from an attack. To keep Johansson from getting set, Patterson planned to press him constantly, throwing a stinging left jab from his new stance. Warned Florio: "Leave Johansson alone in the center of the ring, and he'll knock your head off." In close, Patterson hoped to lower Johansson's guard with flurries of body punches, then use left hooks to catch up with the retreating champion...