Word: kept
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...didn't turn the game around to our advantage by passing and keeping it on theground," Zotter said. "The ball was in the air alot, and if we had just kept possession a littlemore, we could have save a lot of energy...
...Crimson's defense also turned in a solidperformance, led by Marynick's excellentall-around game. Larson kept the area in front ofBurney clean for most of the afternoon as well...
...gifted athlete, an ambidextrous operator who could caper and maneuver and keep his feet dry. It would be nice, of course, to have a grownup in the Oval Office, but voters have settled twice now for something less than that because he seemed so good at the job that kept tripping others up. And yet here he was, with his very survival at stake--the thing he cared most about--and he suddenly couldn't find his footing in one failed apology after another. Lawmakers, even those who never much liked Clinton but respected his talent, were spooked...
...mood was changing. They came back to work last week after spending some time at home and getting an earful. Real people, the lawmakers learned, were sick and tired of turning off the TV when the news came on and hearing their kids use "Monica" like a cussword. They kept asking each other how they were supposed to explain to their constituents why the President of the U.S. was allowed to keep his job after admitting to behavior that would get a high school principal fired. Even Republicans like Representative Fred Upton, a moderate Michigander, called for Clinton's resignation...
Growing up, I never really understood apartheid. All that I knew was that it was a system that kept white people in power and black people in jail. I knew that it involved disenfranchisement and loss of civil and political rights. I knew that black people were beaten and sometimes killed, but as to any sort of legal or conceptual understanding, I was completely lost...