Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widow, Chiang Ch'ing, have been held responsible for everything from crop failures to the shortage of sidewalk cafes. Many of the accusations are justified. But in China now, when a foreigner mentions the Gang of Four, it often happens that the Chinese with whom he is talking will hold up five fingers and say, "Ah, yes, the Gang of Four." The small subversive joke reflects what most Chinese accept: that Mao not only permitted but encouraged the activities of his wife and her radical friends...
...spending program than did the bloated one Carter produced last January. Next year's budget is already a success for OMB Boss James Mclntyre, who came to the job last winter as a fill-in replacement for the fallen Bert Lance, and only recently seems to have taken effective hold of his department. Staffers detect a new crispness in Mclntyre's decisions and report that he often backs up his rulings by saying: "Fm holding firm on that?let him take it [on appeal] to the President...
...high school students immediately asked for help. Says School Psychologist Abe Matus, who saw 50 youngsters: "There was a sense of helplessness and anger at the dead boys-'How could they do this to me?'' But Matus feels that the healing process has already taken hold. "If a kid is in trouble, word now gets back to us. A lot of trust between faculty and students has been built up." Many of the youngsters seemed to need assurance that they would not kill themselves. Says School Social Worker Robert Klopfer: "Even though they had no real intention...
...world were a wholly rational place, their claims on it would be small. But the fact is they do make claims, and strong ones. Kermit, rueful and dithered frees a part of our own natures so absurd and defenseless that we would never let a human actor hold it in his hands. This freedom is wonderful, but there is a price What these puppets mean to the millions of people who have watched them is al most embarrassing to express, because the feeling they evoke is nothing less than love . ? John Skow
...books and in the essays, letters and diary excerpts that make up this new volume, the Holocaust haunts every word. Wiesel's special accomplishment is that he has assigned himself the excruciating role of witness to the century's great crime without losing his hold on sanity and compassion...