Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wind whipped at the ruddy-faced parade watchers during the two-and-a-half-hour ritual, but because of cultural heritage, neighborhood pride or perhaps simple curiosity, crowds seemed oblivious to the cold. They kept warm by dancing impromptu jigs to the incessant sounds of the pipe and drum bands that were part of the festivities, and by marveling at the diversity of the procession's participants...
...thing kept me from being completely satisfied--I wasn't given my much-deserved reward...
...success at co-opting traditional Democratic issues such as education--and boosting from 37% to 65% the number of black and Hispanic students passing key statewide tests--has helped lure women and minorities to his camp. And, in a party often at war with itself, his charm has kept social conservatives from deserting him without alienating moderates--and vice versa. No wonder Bush has victory-starved Republicans salivating. "This is being driven by a pervasive terror in the ranks of Republicans," concedes one of his outside advisers. "If we lose the White House in 2000, we'll lose another third...
...Heaven for Little Girls over his good fortune. Who else but a morally indifferent ingenue would coo over his feeling sorry for himself because a soldier had died in Bosnia and would let him use it as an excuse to violate his fidelity calendar: the record she said he kept of the days he didn't cheat on his wife, like an alcoholic crossing off days he stays off the sauce. One frightening claim in the book is that the President became "sexually aroused" by Monica's description of her own Bosnia visit as a Pentagon employee. Perhaps those bombs...
Before we talked, Mandel kept me on hold for 20 seconds while he Lysoled his phone. He had not heard of the Killer Germ. "Are you calling to ruin my life?" he yelled. Then he explained how his precautions were actually logical responses to real risks. I found myself agreeing with him until I noticed the amount of times he used the phrase mucous membrane...