Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balanced Books. In Los Angeles, police searched for a man who held up a Salvation Army store, growled at his victim: "I've donated to the Salvation Army quite a bit. Now give me all the bills you have...
Through the shot and shell of 2½ years of pounding by the McClellan committee, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' President James Riddle Hoffa held hardest to his No. 1 point: Hoffa is an innocent victim whose only crime is that he gets good wages and working conditions for his "boys." Last week, in a special report to the Senate, the McClellan committee took dead aim on Hoffa's benevolence to the boys. Said the committee: "In the history of this country it would be hard to find a labor leader who has so shamelessly abused his members...
...held up a gory picture of a Turcoman woman, demanded: "What right did they have to kill this woman? Is that what the granting of rights to women means?" Almost absently, Kassem continued: "Look at these savage acts. Do they not discredit freedom and democracy? What have you done? These pictures cause pain. Look at the poor people being dragged in the streets." Composing himself, Kassem said: "Rest assured that this will not happen again. There is force ready to destroy anyone attempting...
...trials. Despite a handsome time advantage in filing-seven hours in Moscow, eleven in Novosibirsk-many dispatches missed their U.S. deadlines because of interminable, often unexplained Red-tape delays. Correspondents found that the only sure way to get copy back home was by telephone: the Associated Press held one circuit seven hours-at $3 a minute, or $1,260 worth-to assure prompt coverage of Nixon's long talk with Khrushchev at the Premier's dacha outside Moscow...
...were in home building, which leveled in July at a seven-month rate 32% above last year. So great is the demand for funds to finance home mortgages that Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. warned: "Overstimulation of building activity under currently developing boom conditions" must be held in check to avoid a later downturn...