Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invaluable though sometimes heartbreaking information. Says San Francisco's Albert Cheng, who is president of the Chinese Culture Foundation: "The exclusion acts devastated our families, but they provide the only record here." Miraculously, Cheng, 49, has located five of his family's 32-volume genealogy books, the traditional records kept by village elders, and has used them to reconstruct 3,000 years of familial past...
...women gathered there. She stops abruptly and pulls hundreds of rubber bands out of a bag, an embarrassment of riches meant to represent the psychic entanglement she has had to deal with. "This is me," she says. "All of me." Agoraphobia, fear of open spaces, she explains, kept her housebound for two years...
...also seems to keep out unexpected but eminently welcome visitors. With a sadistic pleasure, we detain tenants' friends and relatives, keeping them in the lobby until their host returns home, wakes up or gets out of the shower to vouch for their good character. I hope those who are kept waiting find some solace in our obeisance to the rules and rituals...
...course -- and now that other old standby, the royal family, has offered up its requisite amount of gossip. Wednesday a spokeswoman for Prince Charles confirmed that Camilla Parker Bowles, the Prince's longtime mistress, has met Prince William for the first time. When Diana was alive, Camilla was kept very much in the shadows. Her sudden flurry of interest in Charles' son -- they reportedly got together three times over the last month -- has sparked rumors that Camilla is about to become a stepmother, not to mention future Queen Consort...
...view of how mountains were built and seabeds stretched and rifted, and how continents oozed out of place and out of shape, was itself shifting, upthrusting, subducting. Plate tectonics, the giddy new geology, said that continents floated on some 20 crustal plates, 60 miles thick, kept in motion by ... yeah, well, we'll figure that out later. But in the 1960s and '70s more geologists than not had signed on to the theory. Most agreed, for instance, that India had rammed into Tibet at high speed (and is still ramming), heaving up former ocean floor to create the Himalayas...