Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boys at last getting a hot breakfast at Antietam when they were interrupted by a Union charge; they were so mad that they stopped the superior Yankee force in its tracks. Carter was tickled by the account of how the cannons at Antietam stirred up the hives of bees kept by the farmers. One Pennsylvania regiment had 127 bee stings. The President leaned on the bridge over Antietam Creek where General Burnside with four divisions had been stalled for hours by Robert Toombs with a few hundred of those beloved Georgian sharpshooters...
...despite all the noise they have made, neither the Governor nor the Clamshellers have actually influenced the stop-and-go course of construction at the site. Surprisingly, both sides agree on the villains' identity: bungling federal bureaucracies whose errors and capriciousness have kept key issues from being resolved. Says Carl Goldstein, a spokesman for the pro-plant Atomic Industrial Forum: "It is horrendous what Seabrook shows about the regulatory process." Agrees Tony Roisman, an opposing lawyer: "You can't regulate this...
...story goes, Flynn apparently had a revelation that God would praise him if he could get the 1979 budget through with a bill restricting state funding for abortions for poor women. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis kept his promise, vetoing the bill last Friday, but it was overridden that evening by a vote of 159-50. Since Monday, poor women have been wondering who will pay for their abortions...
Meanwhile, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported that a Graham-related group, the World Evangelism and Christian Education Fund, had $22.9 million in assets and kept them "carefully shielded from public view." Well...
...safe distance. Her pose was that of the indefatigable but bumbling striver, chirping away about her supposed inability to stage a dinner party, cope with preternaturally wisecracking children or conform to the feminine image conveyed in glossy women's magazines. If any malice was in her, she kept it out of her prose...