Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steady downpour kept many Cambridge voters away from the polls yesterday, dampening the election chances of liberal candidates running for the Cambrizge City Council...
...civilization and religion to Africa, then the wealth and dazzling beauty of Africa was too tempting for their feeble minds. Civilization was brutal and savage; the cross lost track of the guiding light, and the primary motive of their cause became a dream betrayed. Instead of civilizing men they kept them in cages of ignorance; instead of freeing their victims they enslaved them. The cross became the cross to crucify the Africans because he was a heathen. The African continent must have been a golden treasure to the colonialists. Africa had all the natural resources the colonialists needed--gold, iron...
...half a gusting East wind seemed to be the element most determined in its attempts to prevent Harvard from continuing the prolific scoring pace it had established with 15 goals in its two previous games. As co-captain Karen Fifer said, when they neared the B.U. goalmouth, the Crimson "kept kicking balls into the air that just didn't go anywhere...
...Adelsried, he will complete an exceptional jet-age odyssey. It began when his World Airways flight touched down in Bangor, Me. A disembarking stewardess walked past Kreuz, and wished him a "pleasant stay in San Francisco." Startled, he left the plane and went through customs. But then he kept on going, hailing a cab and, without any knowledge of English, reached a hotel...
...other Persian Gulf states helped this year with a $5.4 billion package that allowed Egypt to pay off some short-term obligations and thus save $200 million in service charges. But even with this assistance the Egyptian economy is in terrible shape. To placate his citizens, Sadat has kept the price of food staples artificially low by putting up government subsidies of nearly $1 billion annually. If Egyptians were forced to pay nonsubsi-dized prices, Sadat might be ousted by a repetition of the food riots that rocked Cairo last January. With his we-won't-pay announcement...