Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minute say that if you're black with kinky hair you have the same chance as a blue-eyed blond in America. But racial quotas and set-asides are tearing us apart. They breed white resentment and the suspicion of black inferiority, and they haven't kept pace with our multiethnic society." Connerly, who is of African, French, Irish and Choctaw descent, is married to an Irish-American woman; their son is married to a Vietnamese American. "What racial box on the university admission form is their child supposed to check?" asks Connerly...
...three-pointer with 25 seconds left that gave his team the lead for good. "I didn't even think he was going to be able to put his uniform on," said teammate Scottie Pippen, who literally had to hold Jordan up at the end of the game. "He kept everybody patient and just made big shot after big shot. He's the greatest...
DIED. HELEN JACOBS, 88, stout-hearted tennis player who kept swinging year after upsetting year in her lopsided rivalry with Helen Wills Moody; in East Hampton, N.Y. Jacobs won nine Grand Slam titles, many in doubles. In 11 much hyped face-offs, "Helen the Second" survived Moody's baseline drives only once...
...certainly a hit Thursday in Texas, where 46,507 showed up at The Ballpark to see history made. After notching the new era's first win, Giants pitcher Mark Gardner recalled a bit of AL culture shock. "They've got quite a lineup," he said. "I kept looking for the ninth hitter, the pitcher, and he never showed...
That policy kept America engaged with its allies and paid off handsomely. Not only is there no prospect of a war in Europe, but the ancient enemies--France and Germany at the center--have integrated their economies, torn down internal trade barriers, and face the world increasingly as a single unit. Their prosperity is enormous: Europe's gross domestic product last year, $8.6 trillion, overshadows America's $7.6 trillion...