Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wives and widows of the men of the RB-47 have abided by the department's request to keep quiet and wait. But waiting is difficult for young wives, and they can find small comfort in the driblets of letters that manage to seep through the Communist censorship. Among the personal messages the prisoners were permitted to write to their families, a few notes gave an inkling, especially as the Christmas season approached, of their solitary anguish. "I can't believe that nothing is happening," wrote Bruce Olmstead, "and I do my best to make it from...
...newly poor U.S. tourists. Recommends Punch: In stead of saying. "Will you folk never learn to make a chilled martini?", say "I am acquiring a taste for mild ale." For "Yeah, we did Scotland last week-end," substitute "I think we can afford the fare to Banbury." For "Keep the change, kid." try "Thank...
...allies were properly appreciative of the seriousness of the U.S. plight, and in serious moments serious about it. But some found it hard at all times to keep an altogether straight face...
King Lukengu's troubles began last summer when the Congo became a republic and the new provincial government of Kasai decreed that it was "undemocratic" for one man to keep 800 wives in a life of semi-serfdom. "We have our freedom now," said Kasai President Barthelemy Mukenge, 35, "and these women must have theirs...
...Commons cut off his now titled son's pay; all the young Benns, including four small children, were left without means of support. Tony's unemployment status was made official when his national insurance cards were returned. Nobody listened when the hapless peer insisted that everyone keep calling him just plain Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn. When he applied for the usual M.P.'s railroad pass to visit his constituency in Bristol, Viscount Stansgate was told to pay for the ticket himself...