Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With or without the F-15, the Saudis have no illusions about being able to fight off a serious attack from Israel, to say nothing of a combined assault by hostile neighbors with Soviet backing. Thus the very modest Saudi strategy is to be strong enough to hold out for a mere two or three days until international support could be rallied and a powerful friend ? say the U.S. ? could rush...
Every day but Thursday and Friday, the Muslim weekend, King Khalid, Crown Prince Fahd and other leading dignitaries hold informal majalis at which citizens come forward to beg favors or present grievances. Twice a week there are larger, formal majalis at which hundreds may appear. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn attended one session at which Prince Fahd presided. His report...
...means to hold endorsers liable for false pitches...
...last week, there are some new rules; in a bold decision, the Federal Trade Commission announced that henceforth it will try to hold celebrities personally liable for any false claims made in the ads that they grace-and make them pay out of their own pockets part of any legal penalties that might be assessed...
...Press version. Wicker shot back: "My story's right and anyway, I just left the A.P. It's down in the bar, drunk." He inks an indelible portrait of Lyndon Johnson, who liked to hang the Presidential Seal on a bale of hay at his Texas ranch, hold a brief press conference and ride off on his horse. The columnist also remembers an intense young man who showed up in his Washington office with fantastic tales of U.S. duplicity. Wicker sent him away for lack of proof; three years later the visitor, Daniel Ellsberg, returned to the Times...