Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mechanic. He died when she was 13, and she helped to oversee the three younger children while her mother worked. She married Jimmy when she was 18, and he, at 21, had just emerged from Annapolis to begin a seven-year naval career. When they returned to Plains, she kept the books for his peanut and fertilizer business, while raising four children. Throughout, her inner toughness was being strengthened...
Study Hall: Lehman Hall dining room is being kept open as a astudy hall from 10-1130 pm. Monday- Thursday...
DIED. Thomas B. Hess, 57, former editor of Art News magazine, who last February became chairman of 20th century art at the Metropolitan Museum; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As art critic for New York magazine in the 1970s, Hess kept alive his romance with abstract expressionism...
Investigators are considering pressing charges under the racketeering statutes that until now have been used largely against organized crime; they provide for a longer statute of limitations, stiff penalties and the recovery of profits illegally gained. These sums, estimates one federal official who has been kept informed of the investigations, could amount to billions of dollars...
...kept saying, on and off, for the next 20 years. He tried to prolong his life with injections of goat hormones, and at the same time lamented his longevity. As he reached toward 90, Willie was constantly lionized, and he just as constantly complained, "Why can't they let me die?" On one occasion he compared his life to a party. It was "very nice to start with, but has become rather noisy as time has gone on. And I'm not at all sorry to go home...