Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story of this game was the way the makeshift Crimson defense pulled together in the clutch to hold Penn. The defense was on the field much of the second half protecting Harvard's slim four-point lead. The Crimson offense did not generate a first down in the third quarter and when the defense must have been tiring, Penn came at its throat in the fourth quarter...
Nace, who called the governor's election "the race of the mental midgets," said he thought King was "not winning on what he stands for, but because Tip O'Neill came in to hold his hand up and stop the bleeding. He had a lot of support...
...challenge presented by the oilmen of Araby and the energetic manufacturers of Japan. U.S. food exports would be higher still were it not for a variety of barriers: outrageous quotas that keep Japanese consumers from buying as much U.S. beef and fruit as they would like, variable tariffs that hold the prices of American foodstuffs in the European Community above those of locally grown items, and the inability of the hungry underdeveloped nations to scrape up enough cash to buy more U.S. meat and grain...
...fellows for being too timid about expanding and adopting new technology. As he told TIME Correspondent Roberto Sur: "I think it's because they're alone a lot out in the fields and they have too much time to think. They end up convincing themselves that if they just hold on for a year longer things will get better and there will be no need to make troublesome changes. But the economics are such that I think if you're standing still you're really falling behind. You've got to grow to stay alive...
...plowing. For millennia, farmers have turned over the land with plows before tilling it, cultivating it and putting in seed. Now, machines are available that combine several operations in a process called minimum tillage. One machine, on which Garst and a partner hold the patent, cuts a V-shaped furrow in unplowed land and simultaneously drops in seed. Says Garst: "In a sense, we have gone back to the pointed stick...