Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know how we scored that one," Ciavaglia said. "It was a funny play. The puck just kept bouncing all the way in. I didn't really shoot it, I just shoveled...
...teamed with junior Robi Soni to take the number-two doubles match against Astorino and Kyle Hawthrone, 7-6 (7-5), 6-1. Both teams stayed on serve throughout the first set. The Temple duo went up a minibreak in the tiebreaker, but a crosscourt forehand winner from Soni kept Harvard in the set. Soni then took advantage of a second serve opportunity at 6-5 to clinch the tiebreaker...
...blights on his happy childhood seem small, but, Updike argues, they inexorably determined the life he would lead. As a boy, he developed psoriasis and a sporadic stammer; he could savor reality's entrancing parade but never feel comfortable joining it himself. The recurring rashes on his skin kept him apart, drove his attention inward: "You are forced to the mirror, again and again; psoriasis compels narcissism, if we can suppose a Narcissus who did not like what he saw." One of the hallmarks of his fiction became elaborate celebrations of the status quo. Updike thinks he knows...
...days before Nunn would lead the charge against John Tower on the Senate floor, the 50-year-old chairman of the Armed Services Committee sat in his office under the influence of two diet Cokes and finally confessed that he once stole some eggs from a neighbor who kept chickens...
...Satanic Verses kept sparking repercussions around the world last week. The Riverdale Press, a New York City weekly, was fire-bombed, possibly in response to an editorial championing the novel by Salman Rushdie. In California offended Muslims are believed to have tossed Molotov cocktails into two bookstores selling the book...