Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...knows, he may turn the more whole-minded of us to realizing that the "child is father of the man," and inspire us to acquaint ourselves with Freud's voluminous works to perhaps correct our "innocent bungling" so that we may not forever keep breeding disaster on the human race...
Ismet Inonu, 75, can claim to be the founder of two-party democracy in Turkey. In 1950, as Turkey's Dictator-President, he staged the first fair elections-and lost. Ever since, as leader of the opposition Republicans, the grizzled war hero has been struggling to keep the republic on the trail he blazed...
...dominated by steeples of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Nationalist farmers had scarcely noticed anything wrong. At one vineyard, an Afrikaner shrugged: "Maybe the city people have trouble with their natives, but ours are satisfied. We treat them well, give them six tots of wine a day. and keep them peaceful. What have we to worry about?" Another saw Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's escape from his assassin as a justification of Nationalist policies. "Man, it was an act of God, don't you see? He didn't die-we must be right...
Other farmers were subjected to days of verbal bombardment from loudspeaker trucks parked outside their houses. Gustav Pohl, 60, a farmer near Rostock, had resisted collectivization for five years, but gave in fortnight ago to the agitators. "They told me I could keep one cow and a few chickens and pigs for me and my family. I asked what they meant to give me for my land. They said they did not have any money right now . . ." Quietly, Pohl sent his daughter off to "visit" relatives in West Berlin for Easter, then packed a few things in a net shopping...
...affected few. But as the number of city-bred Africans grows, the problem has become Africa-wide. Today many families are neither completely tribal nor wholly Europeanized, but something in between, with all the tensions and disputes caused by the conflict of a traditional and an emerging culture. To keep their personal freedom and the control of their own earnings, many African girls are refusing to marry the men they live with. An estimated half of the couples living together in Uganda have had neither Christian, civil nor tribal marriage...