Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amin. Do they offer aid to prop up a shaky regime ?which then might drop in the Russians' lap? Or let the government collapse?and risk a widening guerrilla war in an unstable region? Moscow, which has waited patiently since the time of the czars to consolidate its hold, faces no such agonizing choice...
Still, the basic mystery is mysterious enough, the antique manners of this genre have an inherent campiness that's fun, and there is a briskness of pace and enough mild wit to hold one's attention. By the end one is rather surprised at how high the pile of corpses is, which means that sufficient style was present to serve its traditional function in the puzzle mystery - distract us from the gore that of necessity lies at the center of this form. Which is a way of saying that they must have been doing something right here...
...devoted to the stylized art of dressage, in which the rider, using reins and pressure from his legs, guides his horse through intricate maneuvers ("Serpentine three loops, the first and the third at canter, the second counter-canter ..."). Davidson kept Might Tango under control: "I had to hold him back and keep him from exploding." And although the young horse lacked "precision," as the experts say, he still did well enough to finish eleventh...
Processed turkey, processed ham, processed cheese, iceberg lettuce, cole slaw and mayonnaise. Toothpicks hold all this between 3 slices of white bread minus crusts...
Processed turkey, processed ham, processed cheese, iceberg lttuce, cole slaw and mayonnaise. Toothpicks hold all this between 3 slices of white bread with crusts...