Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...savage irony in the fact that the Freedom Bell now rings out daily over the city that was the capital of Adolf Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich. But the Nazis never won a free election in Berlin, even failed to get a majority in the first municipal elections held there after Hitler came to power...
...protectorate. They ended the beheadings, the chopping off of hands and the slave trade, but they deliberately did not destroy the power of the emirs and the chiefs-under a characteristically empirical British policy known as "indirect rule." So it was not until 1956 that the Northern Region held its first direct elections to its Assembly, not until this year that its rulers finally got around to accepting self-government. Even today the emirs can appoint kadis (Moslem judges) with complete authority to fine, jail...
...before settling on Killebrew. But once the season began, Killebrew took dead aim on the fences, in the space of twelve days hit two homers in each of four games. In the field he still has a bad habit of spearing balls one-handed. But his batting average has held up well, is currently an acceptable...
Since then, Campbell has held the record unchallenged and upped it every year. But the magic 300-m.p.h. mark on water has become to Campbell what Mount...
...April 22, 1958, the Philadelphia Inquirer headlined, "Harvard Aide Held in $20,000 Bail as Red Purjurer." The aide was Zborowski, who, according to the authorities, was for 25 years "a trusted Soviet secret police agent whose reports were read personally by Stalin." When Kenneth Robertson asked for the "essential facts surrounding the case of Comrade Zborowski," Pusey replied only that he had been "appointed last Spring by the President and Fellows." Robertson wrote back as follows...