Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomore ace Dave Pottetti lost contact with the leaders shortly after the half-way point, but kept up a steady pace to finish third, bouncing across the finish line...
...with Dalmatian that Bogovich finally got a chance to show what he could do on offense. The team was undermanned on the attack, and happily for Harvard, Bogo was switched to the front line. His powerful kicking and ball-controlling ability have kept him there ever since...
...they kept the band working, Americans set record after record. Texas' strapping Randy Matson won the shotput and set an Olympic record of 67 ft. 10¾ in.; California's Bob Seagren soared to another new Olympic mark by clearing 17 ft. 8½ in. in the pole vault. In the short dashes, California's Jim Hines clocked 9.9 sec. in the men's 100 meters to tie his own pending world record, and Georgia's Wyomia Tyus won the women's 100 in 11 sec. flat. Then, in the field events, there...
Never in its 102-year history, had Figaro missed an edition. Proper Parisians would no more think of doing without Figaro at breakfast than croissants. Employee control has not kept it from being the unabashed bastion of the French bourgeoisie; its sober, sensible columns rarely stoop to scandal or crusading...
Throughout a summer of sizzling sales, Detroit's auto executives kept revising upward their estimates of how Calendar Year 1968 would turn out. What kept them from getting really carried away was the nagging fear that the 1969 models, which would enter the showrooms by October and bear higher price tags but few major styling changes, might meet with buyer resistance. That fear has all but evaporated. As Ford Executive Vice President Lee lacocca put it, Calendar 1968 is a "lead-pipe cinch" to wind up as the best sales year in history, surpassing the 1965 record...