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Word: kept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson captain Kevin Carr was the only one on the ice who could solve the Rollefstad riddle with any regularity, and his tallies at 15:56 of the first period and :25 of the third kept Harvard in control until the Princetonians finally gave up the hunt...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: Crimson, Tigers Split Weekend Games | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...Reagan speech is no Gettysburg Address, but it lights up the audience. Sample warm-up joke: A man in traction in a hospital pays no attention to the visitor bending anxiously over him. Finally, the patient opens his eyes and explains in a discreet Irish brogue that he kept silent because he wanted to savor the moment: "It's been six months here since I've had a drink, and your breath is like the rain from heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Reagan's Longest-Running Act | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Captain Jim Strathmeyer (177 lbs.) kept Harvard's hopes alive with an escape in the closing seconds that gave him a bitterly contested 4-3 triumph...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Matmen Give Powerful Yale a Scare, But Bulldogs Survive Upset Bid, 21-16 | 2/21/1976 | See Source »

...check with other masters turned up no similar situation, but it did show that masters use different accounting procedures for these funds. Some masters kept all the funds scrupulously apart, while at least one master was unable to say how much of the entertainment allowance went for student-oriented functions because he lumped all these monies in a single account...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Power of the Purse | 2/21/1976 | See Source »

WHEN THE LAST Americans left Saigon last spring, Vietnam quickly faded from the public view. Newspapers moved on to other questions, radicals found other causes to fight for. Even the Vietnamese refugees who came here have dropped out of sight. Though movies like Hearts and Minds kept some sense of guilt alive and reinforced a determination to avoid repetitions of the war in Southeast Asia, very little attention has been paid to the task of reconstructing a country whose entire social and economic structure was destroyed by 30 years of war. On the whole, Americans seem to have written...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Reconstruction & Revolution in Vietnam | 2/20/1976 | See Source »

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