Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statue was dragged off a sandy seabed in the nets of surprised fishermen from the Italian port of Fano in 1963. A wily antique dealer and his two cousins from the nearby town of Gubbio bought it for $5,500, then kept it in a local priest's house, as they tried to peddle it secretly to European art dealers for $200,000. A Roman antique dealer tipped Italian officials off to the statue's existence. But when police raided the priest's house in 1964, the bronze was gone. In a lengthy court fight, the priest...
...City kept things tight when Silvera took a length of the board pass for a layup to make it 38-32, Harvard, and then Holman stripped guard Mike Stenhouse of the ball to cut the lead to four. That was the closest CCNY came the rest of the half and Hooft canned a reverse layup and cashed in on a 20-footer to again up the lead to eight...
Although The Santa Corporation ignored everyone and kept on producing as though the holiday were not over, no one outside the company celebrated Christmas any more except on one day. And even then, they only exchanged presents--they would not take any from The Corporation...
...land became choked and glutted with the unwanted and untouched presents that kept coming out of The Santa Corporation's plants by the truckload. And while the company kept spewing out holiday paraphernalia like a merry-go-round with no brakes, the Clausists erected a tremendous monument outside the gates of the comapny's main factory. They built high and strong an image of Santa Claus, the long-dead manic sleigh jockey who had become their symbol. And on the pedestal of the figure, they inscribed a long-forgotten and poorly-understood poem that one of the ancients had written...
...concerned that none of us ever drink of the demon rum, but he conveniently never mentioned anything else. I remember one particular night, as I lay in bed listening to my brothers talk to my mother on the telephone. They were telling her about how big barrelfuls of popcorn kept coming and that they were having a wonderful time. I slept through that evening's activities, but my father had a very long night washing out bedsheets and the like. My mother was a smart woman...