Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that evangelical sheen, orchestrating millions of dollars for a few votes, just like an oldtime pol. There are no cases of his grabbing a man by the lapels and demanding his vote, but at last he abandoned his "I understand your problems" approach to a wavering legislator. He kept up the pressure, in the language of the cloakroom-"I need your vote...
...primary military goal, which was to smash the Palestinian guerrilla strongholds near the border in southern Lebanon and establish a buffer zone, most of it four to six miles wide, along the entire Israeli-Lebanese frontier. But what remained far from clear at week's end, as Israeli forces kept pushing deeper into...
...mockery of itself: the typical Palestinian longing for the orange groves of Jaffa has become ludicrous in a time when Jaffa itself has disappeared before the encroachments of Jewish Tel Aviv, and whatever orange groves remain are almost blotted out by industrial development. But the Palestinian dream has been kept alive, thanks to sophisticated political work by Arafat and other Palestinian leaders and the willingness of Arab governments to support (however grudgingly) a nearly lost cause...
General Dynamics executives contend that they can fulfill the contract only at a heavy loss because the Navy kept changing its mind about what it wanted...
...Celtics kept their faint playoff hopes alive with a come-from-behind victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers last night at the Garden. Boston trailed by eight with less than six minutes remaining, but--keyed by Dave Bin's 18 second-half points--it bounced back...