Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours of the third Monday in February are a time for us to recall the greatness of two men who have extraordinarily affected our lives. Without Washington, who withstood external pressures, and Lincoln, who kept our nation together despite internal chaos, the United States might well not exist...
...honor those long-dead national heroes. I did not participate in a parade, even though I did as a child. I did not pledge allegiance to the flag they preserved, despite the fact that I did so every day in high school. If I kept a diary, I probably would not have registered the day's importance, not even as an aside. Instead, I watched a movie, stayed at lunch a little longer, practiced for a house pool tournament and whiled away the hours until dinner...
Normally a contrast in style is what creates harmony between linemates, but for the Harvard freshmen it is their similarities that have kept them together since the beginning...
...have been together ever since almost the first practice," Bala says. "The lines have changed, but for some reason we keep plugging along and have been kept together. It's only going to grow and were just going to get better with each other...
...this country can never just exist as a person: his humanity is always conditioned by race in exactly the same way that the humanity of a slave was denied by race. At least since the age of seven, my experiences with racism, as trifling as they may be, have kept me from passing a day without thinking consciously or subconsciously about my skin pigmentation. Even with the "little" things, the incidents that may or may not be racially motivated, the fact that the question even had to pop up in my head serve as reminder enough...