Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we need an increase in social services in Cambridge, but I also believe taxes should be kept down. I couldn't say exactly how to do that, though," she says...
...tree-lined 1800 block of West Ninth Street in Bensonhurst is a close-knit neighborhood of working-class Italian families. At least 50 people were outside their neatly kept houses when four shots rang out. Plumber Angelo Treglia, 42, fell dead. After police officers arrived, none of the residents would admit to having seen a thing. "What are they waiting for, another murder?" asked Treglia's tearful widow Tilda, as she begged for someone to identify the killer. Finally, after four days of pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen...
...might have lost badly-needed votes by his seeming reluctance to ride out the storm. But if the post-Watergate political mentality costs the mayor some support, his grasp of conventional political wisdom will probably save him quite a bit more--by resigning early in the game, Vellucci undoubtedly kept the bad publicity from getting out of hand, and prevented his trial in the press. Give the voters a month or two to forget, the reasoning goes, and even the worst publicity will fade away...
That did a little number on my mind. I went away from the auditorium overwhelmed, crushed. I remember the words that kept going through my head: "I'm away from home, in this strange city, in America, and I'm a loser..." I cried all night because of it. I had disappointed all my friends, everybody, especially myself. It was awful. I felt it was the end of the world...
...first quarter, Winthrop noseguard Bob Tedesco made an astonishing block of an Eliot punt to score the first touchdown of the game. During the second half, Eliot kept possession of the ball, but penalties again destroyed them. Winthrop quarterback Brian Towne threw a spectacular 50-yard touchdown pass on the fly in the third quarter to flanker John Hendricks to make the final score...