Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I look up at the scoreboard on Saturday and see us ahead 20-19 in the fourth quarter, I know that it's because of Ralph Polillio. He kept us in the ball game." --Harvard football coach Joe Restic...
...pretty close to the picture of how-things-might-have-been that emerges from the relaxed mind of Gerald Ford, ensconced last week at the edge of Thunderbird's glorious fairways in Palm Springs. If he had been elected two years ago, Ford goes on, he would have kept the B-l bomber moving, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile. He also would have had less trouble than that fellow now in the White House in getting a Panama Canal treaty approved, in ending the Turkish arms embargo and in selling planes to Saudi...
John Paul had died so abruptly that he left no funeral instructions, but the Cardinals quickly decided upon the style of simple, stately rites that had been held for Pope Paul VI eight weeks ago. They kept to an open-air Mass in St. Peter's Square, despite the virtual certainty of rain, so as not to disappoint the more than 50,000 people who, rain or shine, desired to attend. At one point during the Requiem, a downpour drenched the solitary coffin, and aides rushed up with umbrellas to shield the 90 white-mitered Cardinals...
...punches that has kept Munsonians rolling for a half-century is the changing status of women. The Lynds noted that industrialization was drawing women into the labor force, but reported that females were shunted into traditional "women's jobs" or paid factory wages way below those paid to men. The Lynds warned that over half of Muncie girls "were busily acquiring habits of money dependence [on men] that characterize Middletown wives." Though the Lynds reported that brains were considered unimportant in a Muncie woman, by the time of their second book, Munsonians had dropped their opposition to working women...
...graceful weathering allowed to be visible on her ineffable forehead), is a church organist, the wife of a country pastor, a woman soft, sweet and intelligent. They have not met in seven years, and it is evident that something other than the mother's illustrious career has kept them apart. Recently, however, the mother's life has been disrupted by the death of an old lover, and Eva has reached out in spontaneous affection with an invitation to visit the parsonage...