Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chiarella, who retreated to his attic with his dog Sergeant. In Hull, Teacher Martha Fingers and her family rested in shifts so that they would not be caught unaware if the house was about to be swept away. "We didn't really sleep," she told rescuers. "The waves kept rocking the house." The sidewheeler Peter Stuyvesant, which formed part of Anthony's Pier Four Restaurant, was torn from its concrete pilings and wrecked in Boston Harbor. Outside of Boston, the storm destroyed some of New England's best-known landmarks. Among them was the seaside dwelling...
...veto any bill that abruptly decontrols gas prices. The problem is complicated by another Senate bloc, this one led by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum and South Dakota's James Abourezk, both of whose states are heavily dependent on natural gas; they therefore demand that a federal lid be kept on gas prices. Democrat Henry Jackson, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has been struggling for more than a month to cobble together a compromise deal featuring phased-in decontrol and higher controlled prices in the meantime, but so far he has been unable to find majority...
...book is a natural history of dwarfs, giants, hermaphrodites, Siamese twins, mutants, the monstrously fat, the grotesquely thin, dog-faced boys and zoophagous geeks. But the richly illustrated work is in fact a combination sideshow, meditation on human nature and medical textbook of the sort that librarians once kept locked away with scandalous volumes like Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis...
...Crimson came back to close it to 37-33 at the intermission, prompting coach Frank McLaughlin to deliver a healthy spank to sparkplug Fine's rump as the squad entered the locker room. But Princeton quickly opened a ten-point lead in the second stanza, and the orangemen kept it there until the five-minute mark. And then they mopped...
...victory kept the Crimson unbeaten and continued a hot streak started at last weekend's Howe Cup, where the "B" team won the trophy and the "A" team performed well. Except perhaps for its van, the women's squash team is in gear...