Word: kept
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...Ball Four," a first-hand account of Major League Baseball in the late 1960s. It was required reading for History 1653, "Baseball and American Society." It was actually a book I enjoyed reading for class, but I just didn't get the chance to finish it because the books kept coming, even though I wasn't ready for them...
...uncertainty of the impending change of sovereignty from Great Britain to China. Among the addresses I had scribbled on postcards and envelopes in those bygone letter-writing days were a half-dozen cities in England and Canada, plus Singapore and New Zealand, among others. Perhaps the one thing that kept us lazy kids writing to one another was the chance to add so many exotic stamps to our growing collections. Besides occasional short notes, we did not share too much of our experiences as each of us faced the challenges of learning English and living in a foreign country, plus...
...museum was right. Of course they kept their slaves, and so did the entire state of Kentucky. Kentucky never joined the Confederacy and Lincoln's proclamation only applied to states in rebellion. So, in essence, Lincoln freed slaves he had no immediate power to free and kept enslaved those who he did indeed have the opportunity to free...
Guided and trained by GTZ, Germany's technical-aid agency, and INRENA, Peru's natural-resources institute, the Matsiguenkas hope to profit from tourism without destroying their own fragile way of life. Contact between tourists and themselves is kept to a minimum; photography is curbed; and tour-group access is limited to certain locations and times of year. The operation is run by a small group of Matsiguenkas, some technical advisers from GTZ and a hired administrator who collects payments. Profits go entirely to the Matsiguenkas to be used as they choose. So far, that has been mostly for medicines...
...place where secrets are kept. In the end nobody knew what it would do. If you sold stocks because you were so wired to the financial world that you feared a Fed action that did not occur, you cost yourself a bundle. The lesson, of course, is that if you have done your homework about your equities and you know what stocks you like and want to own, you can't sweat the Fed's every move...