Word: hold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black-sweatered crew of 50 ("More than it needs to run a 40,000-ton tanker," says Onassis), two chefs, 42 extension phones, a bathtub that glitters with mosaic dolphins and flying fish and was copied from King Minos' palace at Knossos, and a swimming pool big enough to hold a Kennedy sloop...
...press. Sometimes I think if I make myself too available, you fellows will think I'm trying to do a snow job. This surprises you, doesn't it? Well, Humphrey isn't quite the cocky guy everybody thinks. From now on I'm going to hold press conferences and do all sorts of things. What have I got to lose...
...call: "Humphrey arrives in Hartford at 11 a.m." Scrap the housewives. Goodbye, Connecticut General. A fuming Bailey reached Humphrey again and growled: "You're going to stand up 300 women and 2,000 insurance people because you want to sleep one more hour?" Then came the final call. "Hold everything." Humphrey might make the housewives' chat after...
...many issues because the people themselves are uninterested. Talk about the gold outflow or trade protectionism makes audiences nod and yawn. It is a political axiom, and one of democracy's dilemmas, that only one issue per campaign, or two or three at most, can grab and hold the public...
...example, that Asia's regional defense should be led by Japan and India. But many exposed allies will be unable to protect themselves until they achieve political and economic stability-and that will require foreign aid. The Vice President advocates more U.S. economic aid, while Nixon hopes to hold it down by giving aid to fewer countries and inducing affluent allies to carry more of the burden. He overlooks the fact that France, Britain and several other European countries already divert larger shares of their national incomes to foreign aid than the U.S.'s .6%. The U.S. certainly...