Word: hold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stillman Infirmary overflows from flu victims, the Freshman Union will be used to hold extra beds as it did in the 1957 Asian flu epidemic, Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, director of University Health Services, said yesterday...
...Paris peace negotiators agree to hold talks around an octagonal strawberry pie, with the Viet Cong bursting through the crust every hour on the half. Richard M. Nixon, in his Inaugural Address, declares he will balance the White House budget by installing a taco stand in the Lincoln Bedroom...
...Department of Transportation, Secretary Alan Boyd is putting through a change in procedure that would require states to hold two sets of public hearings rather than one before highway-construction projects can be approved. This would allow opponents of a given route more opportunity to make their case. John Volpe, Boyd's designated successor, has spoken against the change...
Phantom Timing. The latest round of provocation and reprisal indicated that if there is ever to be a break in the Middle East's deadly cycle, it is unlikely to be accomplished by the Arabs and Israelis alone. The mounting hostilities hold the threat of involving the U.S. and Russia, as protector-states of the combatants. The conflict has already drawn the superpowers into a renewed buildup in the area. Russia has refurbished the Arab armies at a cost of more than $1 billion. Early last week, to redress the balance, the U.S. concluded negotiations to sell...
...next day, more through mingling than computer matching, the artificial society is beginning to stabilize. Several couples hold hands on deck chairs in the warming sun. A dozen small parties erupt spontaneously in a dozen staterooms. A haggard haberdasher from Baltimore stumbles out of his cabin, glass in hand, looking for ice. "Whew," he says. "She needs two 20-year-olds-not one 40-year-old." Milgrim adopts a literary tone: "Liaisons are being formed and torn asunder faster than you can light a cigarette...