Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to reduce the national debt or budget deficit. Argued Jacobs: "You can't just say, 'Wowee, $2 billion more for spending.' " In general, however, Washington politicians predicted that Proposition 13 would have less impact at the federal level than might be expected. "People are taking hold of whatever handles they can find," said New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable, "but it's very difficult to get hold of the handles of the Federal Government." That did not ease the fears of Maryland Democratic Congressman Parren Mitchell, leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, that social services...
...work is partly made of old-style popular allusions to folk and fairground art. Its imagery is redolent of the fun house, the ghost train, the penny arcade -these small environments of illusion whose hold on the imagination, over the past 25 years, has been so drastically loosened by the encompassing phantoms of TV and movies. Westermann can imbue a model of a building, a little ship's hull or a box with extreme suspense: one peers through the glass at a scene that resembles the inverted world of the fun fair, but concentrated (and made epigrammatic...
...letter did not alter the church's antipathy to interracial marriage or examine the theological implications of the new policy. For one thing, Mormons hold that all people possess an unremembered spirit existence before birth. Discussing black priesthood in 1951, the First Presidency stated that the church rejects original sin and believes that each individual is punished in earthly life for his own failings. This implies, the Presidency said then, that "the Negro is punished or allotted to a certain position on this earth ... because of his failure to achieve other stature in the spirit world...
There are fewer than 1,000 blacks among the world's 4 million Latter-day Saints. Among other privileges, these few black Mormons will now be able to hold church office and undergo such temple rites as "sealing" their marriages for eternity and vicariously baptizing their deceased relatives...
Gene Ferris, an office manager of the Massachusetts Lottery in Boston, reports: "This year our vacation on Cape Cod will be two weeks instead of three or four, and we're bringing in another couple to hold down the rental." Marliss Levin, a suburban Chicago housewife, has taken classes in home plumbing and wiring, and has started to do her own auto repairs. Mary Sinclair, wife of a Detroit auto worker, has taken a part-time job as a housekeeper; her mother makes most of the clothes for the couple's two children, and Mary takes the kids...