Word: kept
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...second quarter, the home team took complete control. After Harvard missed several beautiful shots in another man-up situation, Bill Tennis scored to build the lead. The Crimson kept swarming after loose balls and outshot Dartmouth in the period...
...Ford, partly because of his feuding with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, partly because he wanted $-2.7 billion more for the Pentagon than the White House was willing to give-at the time. Last December he gave Reagan a three-hour briefing on defense matters, and has since kept in touch with his staff. Reagan invokes his name frequently-eight times in a two-day stretch last week -and Schlesinger says he could live with Reagan as President...
...presidency, they feared Sarkis' election because of his reputed receptiveness to an increased Syrian military presence to restore order in Lebanon. After succeeding in getting the election postponed for one week, Jumblatt and his choice for President, Raymond Edde, 63, a Christian who had opposed Syrian intervention, kept up a running drumfire last week to delay the election until what they called Syrian "pressure" to secure Sarkis' election had ended. When they failed to halt the proceedings, both Edde and his supporters boycotted the session...
Before those weeks of refuge, Figiovanni wrote, Michelangelo had been impossible to deal with; he was a man "with whom Job would not have kept his renowned patience for even one day." After it, "Michelangelo asked me pardon a thousand times." No doubt he was immensely relieved to be out in the air again, and carving. The drawings he left on the walls-evidently done behind shutters at night, for his lines are in places visibly interrupted by the grease from guttering candles-were a means of passing the time during that irritating concealment. They are not among the sculptor...
Though the world recession hit Western Europe later and less severely than the U.S., it also lasted longer. For example, unemployment began declining in the U.S. last June, but kept climbing in Europe well into the winter. Now, however, recovery in Europe, as in the U.S., is proceeding faster than had been expected. After two years of sagging demand, European auto sales are rising so rapidly that one executive of Simca in France says that his company cannot make cars as fast as customers want to buy them. Businessmen have got their inventories down, and their order books are filling...