Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this seems rather shocking for a man who was once regarded as Africa's most durable dictator. The son of a hotel maid, Mobutu rose to head Zaire's army upon independence in 1960, then seized power five years later. In the decades since, he has kept his balance by continually shunting friends and enemies in and out of favor. A favorite technique for keeping underlings in line has been to switch without warning from generosity to savagery. He has been known to have a man arrested, tortured and forced to drink his own urine before awarding him a prestigious...
...this time, Joan was pretty sure she was a boy. But no matter what she told her doctors and psychiatrists, they kept pressing her to act more feminine. Eventually, she gave up trying to convince them. "You can't argue with a bunch of doctors in white coats," John recalls. "You're just a little kid, and their minds are already made up. They didn't want to listen...
Even as she sped past her 100th year, Sister Mary projected the energy and enthusiasm of a much younger woman. With the aid of a magnifying glass, she kept abreast of national affairs by reading newspapers and magazines. With the aid of a globe, she prayed for the women and children of the world, one continent at a time. In fact, so savvy did Sister Mary seem, so tuned in to her surroundings, that University of Kentucky epidemiologist David Snowdon began to think of her as a kind of gold standard for successful aging...
...sounded like one of those farfetched ideas that you never get around to doing," said sophomore Kyle Walsh, Rice's roommate in Cabot House. "But we kept talking about it, and things came together...
Birch scored three minutes later, followed by junior Holly Rogers and two by MacNaughton. Rogers also kept the whole string going by capturing four consecutive draw controls after those goals...