Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mass. widened its margin early in the second half, but Harvard fought back and kept within striking distance throughout. The cagers narrowed the gap to three points with plenty of time left, but the squads traded baskets until the final buzzer...
Flight delays kept Crimson coach Joe Bernal from ever reaching Philadelphia in time for Saturday's dual swim meet against Pennsylvania; but his coaching mastery was hardly required as the Crimson drowned perennial Ivy doormat Penn, 70-41, running its season dual meet record...
Distance strength kept the Crimson going all afternoon, Harvard taking the top three places in the mile, two-mile and 880-yd. runs. Karla Amble turned in a strong distance double, winning the mile in 5:06.0 and cmufting to a two-mile victory in an easy 11:39.0, 22 seconds slower than the record time she ran in that event last week...
Crucial second-and third-place efforts, like Leslie Sims' 27 second 220-yd. sprint, equaling the school record and tying her for third to split that event's final point, kept the Crimson in range of the speedy Springfield squad, which cleaned up in the sprints and hurdles...
...evidence kept mounting against Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman Daniel Flood in his three-week trial for taking more than $60,000 in bribes. A lobbyist, three businessmen and a rabbi told of paying off Flood to arrange federal grants and contracts. Stephen Elko, Flood's onetime top aide who is now serving a two-year sentence for taking bribes from some of the same people, quoted his old boss as saying, "This is a business. Get all you can while you can get it." Meanwhile, the 16-term Congressman, known for his rococo oratory and baroque waxed mustache...