Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue in an Alexandria, Va., courtroom last week was whether top CIA officials could hold an ex-spy to his written agreement to let them censor anything that he wrote about his undercover experiences. Testified CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "If he is able to get away with this, it will prove to other people that we have no control." In other words, the agency wanted to chill into silence other potential telltale spooks...
...Curiouser and curiouser," Alice might have said. In Chicago last week, a black federal judge, heeding the arguments of a Jewish lawyer, ruled that American Nazi Frank Collin and a handful of brown-shirted followers could hold a rally in Chicago's Marquette Park...
...Israeli government's response was only a crisp observation that five years after a peace agreement Israel would be willing to negotiate "the nature of future relations" between itself and the West Bank. With that virtual nonanswer, the Begin government signaled once more that it was determined to hold on to the West Bank and Gaza at any price, even at the cost of foreclosing the best opportunity Israel has had to make peace with its Arab neighbors since its founding 30 years...
...tragic heroes. He is too much the pragmatist ever to have divided up his kingdom as Lear does, or fall prey to jealousy or doubt as do Othello and Hamlet. While Fate does bring him low, Macbeth's power ploys are realistic assessments of how to seize and hold the crown. But he is afflicted by conscience of a kind. Just prior to killing the gentle Duncan, Macbeth ponders how the horror of it will be perceived in the minds of others...
...NOTEBOOK: Yesterday's crowd of over 31,000 put the Sox over the million mark for the earliest time in the club's history. There is talk that the Red Sox will draw 2.2 million this season, which is outrageous considering that Fenway Park couldn't hold a decent Billy Graham revival...