Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the G.N.P.'s upswing, the U.S. cost of living held just about steady, meaning that the added output was solid growth, not mere bloating. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in February lower food prices brought the consumer price index down one-tenth of a point to 123.7 (the 1947-49 average = 100). That was two-tenths of a point below last November's record high, and only four-tenths of a point above the March 1958 level...
...Roberts, 21, was a student at a Seventh-day Adventist college in Madison, Tenn., planned to become a missionary. The mother, Trannie Roberts, 20, also went to the college, worked nights as nurse in an Adventist hospital. Each day, at 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., Gordon and Trannie Roberts held family devotional, cradling their infant son Larry while 2½-year-old Philip Roberts joined in the prayers and sang simple hymns...
...Siwik kept his ship's prow stuffed into the tanker's big gash, enabling his own crew to help fight Valchem's fire, facilitating the transfer of Valchem's 17 injured seamen to his own ship's hospital. For more than two hours Siwik held his position to keep the tanker from capsizing, drew away only after making certain that the stricken Valchem could stay afloat...
...Rhodesias themselves, just when matters seemed to be getting out of hand, calmer views began to prevail. Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead, faced with strong criticism by clergymen and lawyers, withdrew his police-state Preventive Detention Act and set free about 50 Africans held without charge...
Taking command (in August) of Army forces in Alaska: lean, grey-haired Major General John H. Michaelis, 46, onetime (1947-48) aide-de-camp to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower, combat-proved commander (1950-51) of the famed 27th Infantry ("Wolfhound") Regiment, which held off North Korean armies in the Pusan perimeter while U.S. forces massed for a crushing breakthrough...