Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation and trade deficits skyward round the world, West Germany racked up one record surplus after another. Foreign reserves swelled, orders bulged, and the country's already low inflation rate (7.8%) actually began to decline. An enormous backlog of foreign orders, plus the magic of "Made in Germany," kept exports surging ahead...
...importance of Betts' music for the rock tradition that disintegrated after the sixties--the Hendrix and the Clapton sound, the high-tension, raging, hostile, exciting music that lashed out at something and died, or went the many strange ways its listeners did. The rock that succeeded it kept up the noise but lost the content. Sometimes it tried to club people into oblivion, deaden their senses (great with quaaludes). Or it tried to take people into an abstract other-world, a zillion steps past mere escape. Or it turned the great strength of the music--its implicit threat...
...Crimson offense looked the best it has all season. The passing was sharp, and constantly kept the pressure on in the B.U. end, pouring 38 shots at the Terriers beleaguered netminder Pat Devlin. The Harvard forwards were all over the ice, continually hounding any Terrier puck carrier, with ferocious forechecking and backchecking...
Historically, Harvard's graduates have generally stood with the social engineers, beginning with those Harvard-educated Abolitionists whose sensitivity to the plight of black slaves strangely blended with a massive contempt for Irish workers. By helping to create and run a society that kept poor blacks and whites fighting for its leavings, these people helped to nourish the roots of racism, even though they discriminated only in the most genteel ways--much like Harvard today, with its fashionably mild distaste for the Afro-American Studies Department and its yearly production of a crop of youth to fill the houses...
...Terrier fans missed former All-American goaltender Ed Walsh, but in fairness to Devlin he didn't receive much help from the Terrier defenders. The Crimson's forechecking kept the pressure in the B.U. end most of the game, as Harvard fired off 37 shots to Boston University...