Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teen-age girls peeped out from a darkened front parlor late one night last week in the coal-grimed Rhondda Valley of South Wales. They held their breath as a policeman paused outside, rejoiced when he tramped on past the bleak rows of miners' houses. From a lighted window opposite, a man nodded curtly to signal that BBC television was closing the day's transmission with God Save the Queen...
...robed sheiks but zealous dark-suited young Arab technicians dominated the first Arab Petroleum Congress in Cairo last week. The 420 delegates looked at the $6,000,000 worth of machinery exhibits and held seminars in drilling techniques-but their real interest was oil politics. The Arabs were out for more money and more control over their oil (the Middle East has two-thirds of the world's supply). In the Cairo hotel lobbies, the man everyone wanted to see was a Saudi Arabian with a bright, quick smile, and a profile as sharp as a scimitar...
...right. At 18, Dallas Long already stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs 255 Ibs. Fortnight ago in Tempe, Ariz., he flung the shot an astounding 64 ft. 6 in., a full 16 in. farther than the world record held by Parry O'Brien. For good measure, he topped O'Brien's old mark of 63 ft. 2 in. on three other tosses. But the throws were made in an exhibition, and they cannot be approved for an official record...
...Samaritans retaliated by rejecting the Jews. They proclaimed themselves the true remnant of Israel. The Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem was not the true temple; the correct site, they said, was on Mount Gerizim, where Abraham took Isaac for sacrifice. There the Samaritans set up their own temple and held that there had been no prophet since Moses and no law save that in the Pentateuch...
...varsity lacrosse team will seek to even its Ivy League record at 1-1 when it faces Penn at 3 this afternoon on the Business School Field. The Quakers, usually the weakest team in the Ivy League, held Yale to a 4-2 victory earlier this season...