Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exceptionally casual. Last minute tidying up around the set, lights testing and the chorus' presence onstage before the show all give it the feel of a dress rehearsal. At second glance, family and friends of the Institute seem to constitute the bulk of the audience. Even publicity has been kept low-key, with no press night provided and reviews kindly prohibited...
Anderson also emphasized the team's strong defensive performance, mentioning junior goalie Rob Lyng strong play in the net. Vermont's reluctance to shoot kept Lyng from facing a large number of shots, but the netminder's play was solid...
...knew it was time for me to hand in my work when I woke up that morning, panicked. I had neglected to place accents on my "detentes." Ca alors! I tore open my spring binders, despondent at the prospect of reprinting the two manuscripts, 137 pages each, that had kept me up near dawn feeding the printer the night before. I grew more desperate as my Microsoft Word failed to find any suitable candidates for "search and replace." But suddenly, an epiphany. My addled brain had conflated "detente" with "deterrence"--a good old American word, without all those French accents...
...when Harvard first threatened to score, it was already down by five. The Crimson started a rally in the bottom of the fifth inning, but bad base-running kept the team off the score-board. A runner decided to try and score from third and nobody out on a sharp grounder to the pitcher, and she was roadkill at the plate...
...used by the U.S. military on Okinawa, 2,937 are refusing to renew their leases, affecting about 10 percent of the land. The landowners have the support of local authorities, including Okinawa's governor, Masahide Ota. Ota claims the bases, which monopolize the best land on the island, have kept Okinawa the poorest region in Japan. Hashimoto has signed papers forcing Chibana to renew his lease, but until the renewal process is completed -- a task that could take weeks -- the U.S. military is technically trespassing on Chibana's land...