Word: held
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...jumped out to an early 6-0 lead off two three-pointers from Mitchell Kates and Will Tashman. The Engineers held onto the lead for the game’s first four minutes until the Crimson’s first wave of substitutions checked...
...back alleys, a tall, well-built man who had been severely beaten walked, head held high, alongside his wife. Blood streamed from a growing bulge on his forehead. He smiled. Perhaps he had given as good as he had received...
...That crowd never made it. Ripples of fear prompted a stampede after a concerted police charge. Tear gas and batons held the day once more. But word later came through that many had in fact reached Revolution Square and some had even gone to Tehran's iconic Freedom Monument...
...meantime, says John Ging, UNRWA's chief officer in Gaza, the Israeli siege is "facilitating the destruction of a civilized society." Before the siege, Palestinians in Gaza had prided themselves on the excellence of their schools and industriousness of their workers, many of whom, in more peaceful times, held jobs across the fence in Israel...
...Hamas captivity in Gaza since being snatched from the Israeli side of the boundary in the summer of 2006. Through Egyptian and German mediators, Hamas and Israel are negotiating a prisoner swap in which Shalit would be returned in exchange for the release of more than 900 Palestinians held in Israeli jails, many of them convicted of terrorism. Israeli and Palestinian sources tell TIME that the deal now depends on resolving the conflict between Israel's demand that many of the West Bank prisoners be expelled to Gaza or abroad and Hamas' insistence that they be allowed to return...