Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chances are it would be abused, even worse than Medicaid and Medicare," he said. "There is simply a limit as to how much you can spend. It sounds cruel, but do you spend $500,000 to keep a guy alive for four months...
Brandishing a city visitor parking permit, Frisoli accused students of making photocopies of the permits to keep their cars from being towed...
...unfinished manuscript entitled A Black Border for McGee. May it never be published. The book, as its name suggests, would write finis to Travis McGee, the perdurable, persnickety shamus whose demise, white-haired Author John Dann MacDonald once vowed, would occur after his tenth color-coded* starring role. "I keep the MS.," says the author, "as leverage on my publisher." The latest McGee, The Green Ripper, is the 18th in the Travis saga, and the best...
...wife, Dorothy Prentiss, is an artist. He has long since shed any resentment against the other Macdonald, that more critically esteemed thriller writer whose real name is not John Ross Macdonald at all but Kenneth Millar. ("At least," allows John D., "the guy is literate, even if he does keep hitting the same barrel.") The real MacDonald is a graduate of Syracuse University, the Harvard School of Business Administration and the OSS in World...
...cheerleaders get few opportunities to "mingle with the football crowd," as one cheerleader put it. Coutu doubts this will change even on an away game weekend. "I'm sure when we go away, we'll be pretty much segregated. They want the guys to keep their minds on the game." She doesn't feel deprived. "I'm not there to meet the football team, I could go to guts to do that." Even after the games, the men remain elusive. "After the game they just rush into the locker room and change," Butler says...