Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thevis' second visit, the jailers were just as nice. Thevis was accorded free telephone privileges and had steak dinners with wine. The visits of his girlfriend, Patricia McLean, 28, were largely unsupervised. Apparently the only time the jail staff kept an eye on Thevis and McLean was when the two were allowed to have sex in a deputy's office. According to investigators, three deputies and three New Albany policemen gave the porno king appropriate treatment by watching through a one-way mirror. The night before Thevis was to be returned to Springfield-he had lost the case...
Thursday's game left no room for controversy. Redman righty Steve Bingham kept the Crimson at bay by booting the ball around and giving up six runs--five unearned--in the seventh and eight innings...
Some sources close to the alumni office speculated this week that the Commencement speaker may receive an honorary degree at Commencement. The names of honorary degree recipients are traditionally kept a secret until Commencement...
...serious head injury. She had no memory of what had transpired just prior to the accident, and there was an amazing scene in the back of the truck on the way to the hospital as she frantically asked her husband what had happened. She was desperate to know and kept saying "tell me, tell me," and her husband held her hand and tried to re-create the previous couple of hours--the restaurant, the chowder, the schrod, the accident, everything was going to be all right...
...book after book that the world ignored. Murphy, his first novel, was rejected by 42 publishers. He complained bitterly: "I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It was not as though I wanted to write them." Compulsively, he kept on. Not until age 47, when Waiting for Godot created a sensation on the Paris stage, did Beckett escape a hand-to-mouth existence...