Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...published a news item in your Nov. 3 issue which said I had admitted holding 3,000 tons of wheat in my private warehouse. I would like to state that I have made no such admission. I do not hold or ever have held 3,000 tons of wheat in my warehouse. My land produced 20 tons of wheat this year. Half was given to the tenants, and half was sold to the government...
...Force's Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Fully powered with close to 370,000 lbs. of thrust, the 80-ft. beast leaped from its Cape Canaveral pad, rocketed off the Florida coast into the starry night and arched serenely over the moon. The Cape's missile watchers held their breath as, in shucking its booster motors, the ICBM blazed like a meteor 200 miles from earth; then it faded and seemed to hang for a long time, suspended, like a star-colored point, just below Orion...
...years of upcreep, the Federal Government's consumer price index leveled out last summer, even slipped downward a little in August under the delayed drag of the recession. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in October the ups and downs averaged out and the index held steady for the second month in a row at the August level of 123.7 (the 1947-49 average = 100). Up: new cars, women's and girls' clothing, rents, medical care, cooking gas, fresh vegetables, beef, milk. Down: house furnishings, men's and boys' clothing, fresh fruits...
...early 19th Century. Today, his works, with few exceptions, are praised but unperformed, the D minor Requiem being a case in point. It contains moments of great beauty, and dramatic power; but these are moments only, and the total impression of the work is that of formless wandering, held together by the text rather than any musical coherence...
...defeated Amherst twice, the first time in the finals of the New Hampshire Invitation Tournment, 55 to 49, and later at the I.A.B, 64 to 45. And despite the fact that both teams have made considerable changes in personnel, the varsity nonetheless appars to have retained the edge it held last season...