Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quarters. While Republicans hungry for gains in this November's elections are understandably harsh, so are many members of the President's own party. Complains one prominent Democrat: "Things continue to fall apart. A year ago we were saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter would take hold of things. Six months ago we were saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter would take hold of things. Now we are saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter had damn well better take hold of things." Some Democratic congressional leaders in particular warn that they have just about given...
...land syndicate, and placed the stock in his wife's name. She now claims that it was an outright gift and that she paid capital gains tax on the profits when the shares were sold in 1972. But he insists that the stock was only hers to hold in trust, even though in an answer to one of Betty's lawyer's written questions, he referred to it as a "gift." Asked a lawyer for his wife: "That's pretty concise, isn't it, Senator?" Replied Talmadge: "A little too concise." Talmadge quickly amended...
...emerald tide in Atlantic City, the only U.S. city outside Nevada that permits casino gambling, has not escaped the attention of other states. A group called Let's Help Florida, which hopes to rejuvenate decaying Miami Beach with casino gambling, claims to have enough voters' signatures to hold a referendum on the issue this November. But Governor Reubin Askew is organizing a statewide campaign to fight the proposal. The New York legislature has approved a state constitutional amendment to allow casinos. If the same measure is approved a second time, next year, as required by state...
...deal will hold automatic wage increases to about the same level as under the old contract, but will tighten up considerably on cost-of-living payments, which are made automatically every six months as inflation goes up. Though consumer prices are rising at an alarming 11.4%, Administration officials are hopeful that the rate of increase wi now begin to ease as food prices start to decline, and that inflation will average 7% for the year as a whole. If so, the postal workers should get no more than 6.5% in total pay increases during the contract's first year...
...Mail last week, plans were presumably still afoot to print the Browns' EXCLUSIVE story once the baby was born, though editors there were uncommonly uncommunicative. The Enquirer this week will print its version of the story, though Murdoch's Sun somehow got hold of a few Enquirer morsels last week in London. Murdoch's Star, a Manhattan-based competitor of the Enquirer, will be out this week with some color snapshots, obtained from friends and neighbors of the Browns, and a 3,500-word article...