Word: held
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Minnesota: Relaxed behind a tradition of Democrat-Farm-Labor Party strength, Incumbent Democrat Orville L. Freeman, 40, seized an early and commanding lead over Republican George MacKinnon, held...
...verdict roll up a smashing 450,000-plus victory. Rockefeller captured upstate Buffalo by 5,500 votes where Harriman had won by 10,600 in 1954, carried Schenectady County by a bigger margin than Tom Dewey in 1950, increased G.O.P. margins in suburban Westchester and Nassau Counties, held Harriman below 60% of the vote in New York City by scoring heavily with liberals, independents, minority groups. Rockefeller carried in with him the Republican state ticket, led by upstate Congressman Kenneth Keating, elected U.S. Senator over Tammany-backed Democrat Frank Hogan. Conceded a game Averell Harriman, 66: "I congratulate Mr. Rockefeller...
...Wednesday Rockefeller held his first victory press conference, fended off peppering questions about 1960. "I have only one interest now," he said, "and that is to be Governor. Honest to God, I have no other plans...
...common consent, the force of young Hussein's courageous personality has been what chiefly held Jordan together. The overwhelming majority of his subjects are former Palestinians, many of them refugees, without any devotion to Hussein. Increasingly, the King has excluded the more literate but less trustworthy Palestinians from key posts in the army, depending instead upon tribal loyalties of the Bedouins in eastern Jordan. Only martial law upholds the government, only the army's loyalty sustains the throne, only U.S. aid poured in at the rate of $50 million a year keeps the economy going. Since Hussein threw...
...Rommel Calls Cairo Monty won at El Alamein, even though the Afrika Korps knew his battle plan; the wicked Gestapo had branded it a plant. In The Green Devils of Monte Cassino the Germans held the abbey five months against heavy Allied attacks because their parachutists needed that time to bring its art treasures to the safety of the Vatican. In U-47, dashing Submariner Günther Prien plunks his torpedoes into the British battleship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow, but when his deck officer shouts "Hurrah!", whispers: "Shut up; 2,000 men have just died aboard that ship...