Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Admittedly, children do have the constitutionally protected right to pray in school, individually or in groups, silently or aloud, as long as they don't disrupt classroom activities. But the wicked liberals still insist that we shouldn't be able to force them to pray. The liberals have also kept creationist pseudoscience out of our science class-rooms. Evolutionists already have the unfair advantage of scientific evidence. If we can't get creationism in, we cannot allow evolution to be put in our textbooks, because it gives evolutionists enormous influence. That would be like, say, allowing religious people...
...That's news to the Pentagon, which says that while its planes are patrolling the southern no-fly zone as usual, fighters that would normally be overseeing the northern zone have been grounded -- by bad weather. Thunderstorms over northern Iraq, not Iraqi fighters, have kept the U.S. planes down, according to the Defense Department, and it's not even clear whether Iraqi fighters are up there at all. The bad news for Saddam: Wednesday's forecast calls for bright sunshine...
...much that it kept him from taking to heart a message that Houghton had delivered from Bob Dole: that Clinton had no time to lose in lobbying the Senate against conviction. That afternoon the President started making calls to Senate friends such as Ted Kennedy and Connecticut's Chris Dodd. Clinton accepted that he was going to be impeached but insisted he wouldn't resign or even admit to perjury because he did not believe he had lied. What he wanted now was assurance that there were enough secure votes to fend off conviction in a Senate in which ouster...
Until he was finally hit by the I.R.A. (to him, just more authority to affront), he was equally capable of cheekily parking on a police-station bench all night to give himself an alibi, or of crucifying a suspected informer on a pool table. Happily married, he kept his wife's sister as a mistress and sired children with both women. In this admittedly fictionalized retelling, his other reliable relationship is with an implacably pursuing detective (superbly underplayed by Jon Voight) who hates himself for succumbing to a psychopath's irresistible charm...
...your report on the economic movers and shakers of the 20th century, one motif kept reappearing. Despite all of America's racism, violence, poverty, religious intolerance and ruthless capitalism, the U.S. was and is the only place where a poor immigrant armed with nothing more than vision and unrelenting drive can become a millionaire in a short period of time. YUVAL COHEN Paris