Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baptista Figueiredo, hippophile President of Brazil, on the oil crisis: "The only solution is to tighten belts, walk and keep a horse in your corral...
Perhaps the girls have need to keep their secret world. Born in 1970 in Columbus, Ga., to Accountant Tom Kennedy, now 47, and Christine Kennedy, now 37, a German-born bookkeeper he met in a Munich dance hall during the Fasching festival, Gracie and Ginny suffered violent convulsions days after birth. Tests showed no brain damage, but the Kennedys claim that a Georgia neurosurgeon said it would be five years before the girls could be judged normal or retarded. Kennedy, who later lost his accounting job and moved the family to San Diego in hopes of selling real estate...
Gracie and Ginny now attend separate severe language disorder classes in the San Diego public school system. Put in different schools so they will not fall back to their private communication, they speak jerky, passable English. But they are woefully behind in social and emotional development. "I keep reading that they are so normal now," says Catherine Pope, Ginny's instructor at Ross Elementary School. "It simply isn't true." Gracie can repeat a sentence "imbedded" with a clause and add numbers up to a total of five, sometimes higher. Both girls have motor-coordination problems...
...living room. The visitor asks if she remembers the old language. "Yes," Ginny replies quickly. "No, you don't!" interrupts Tom Kennedy from the front-room couch. "I don't know why you are lying about that!" Ginny reaches playfully for Gracie's pen. "Keep-you-hands-off-me," laughs Gracie. Tom Kennedy speaks again. "You live in a society, you've got to speak the language," he says. "They don't want to be associated as dummies now." Ginny turns to her visitor after glancing conspiratorially at her parents. "O.K.," she says quickly...
...Mannix returned to his Texas game shooting form, hitting assorted bombs from the perimeter for a season-high 16 points. His finest moment, however, came with 3:25 left in the second overtime, when he drove the right baseline and sunk a left-handed five-footer to keep the Crimson within...