Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between sips of coffee at a roadside diner in the rich farm land near Three Mile Island, area residents kept citing the reassurances of company officials that there was no need for concern. As Vice President Herbein had been saying: "This accident is not out of the ordinary for this kind of reactor. It was not unexpected.' President Creitz meant to be equally low key, but in retrospect his words were unwittingly chilling. Said he: "The same occurrence happened two or three times in 1974 on Unit No. 1, but the tanks didn't spill." It was about this time...
Outside, students who were kept away by police and chained gates vowed to "keep on fighting." "When we go home this summer, we have to spread the word in our hometowns about what is going on, what is happening here," one organizer said...
...Harvard that messed it up," the researcher said, "because they kept giving me conflicting instructions." She called the medical area's business office "an elephant's graveyard...
...catastrophic reactor accident could be more devastating than any previous peacetime event. A U.S. government report, kept secret until a Freedom of Information Act request was filed, predicts that a credible nuclear power plant accident could conceivably kill 45,000 people and create a disaster area the size of Pennsylvania...
...kept the pressure on in the fourth when Dewey hit his homer, a towering foul corraled into fair territory by the blustering wind...