Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finishing school, she persuaded her father, a prosperous meat packer, not to send her to college. While wintering in Texas in 1915, she met Ike, then an Army second lieutenant. Nine months later, the pair were married. For an Army wife, there was never a permanent home. "I have kept house in everything but an igloo," Mamie once said. "I long to unpack my furniture some place and stay forever." Their first child, Doud Dwight, died at three of scarlet fever. A second son, John, has had an Army career...
...Khmer Rouge and their entourage had clearly reached the limit of their endurance. They did not look like human beings in the accepted sense of the term but rather like wild animals, completely brutalized. They slept huddled side by side like beasts in a cage. They seldom spoke and kept their eyes cast downward. They seemed so pathetic that it was almost possible to forget the abominable cruelties they had committed in trying to establish a new Communist civilization at a cost of millions of Cambodian lives...
...Then we went up a very steep incline. It took a long time and it seemed like I was almost walking. By the time we got to the top, Eve Thompson from Princeton passed me. After that we hit a flat part and I got by her again. I kept looking behind me and there were people following me closely the whole way," Beckford said after the meet...
Harvard's Paula Newnham, winner of last year's Ivy meet, won't be running today because of a foot injury that has kept her idle for most of this season. Newnham's injury makes Princeton's Lynn Jennings the one to beat, which will be no easy task. Jennings, second in last year's Ivies, recently placed first in the Easterns and has consistently led the Tiger squad...
...incumbent took East Boston, Charlestown and the North End by large margins, and he kept his usual edge in the liberal Back Bay despite the absence of support of someof the city's liberal leaders...