Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as a citizen fills out an application, the SCEOC can make an emergency oil delivery or intervene to put a hold on a delinquent account...
Fully 62% of all U.S. service stations are now self-service operations, but the minority of dealers who offer full service tack on a few cents a gallon for pumping the gas, checking the tires and wiping the windshield. Many station owners still try to hold prices down in order to achieve high volume. "Rocky" Minetti, who manages an Esso station in Pittsburgh, maintained his price of 64.9? per gal. for unleaded right up to the end of last week, while ether stations in his area were charging...
...superb cast lends Taken in Marriage a trace of conviction. There is an aching honesty to Quinlan's Annie as she tries to hold a mirror up to her troubled heart. Streep's alabaster features can convey icy disdain and mock merriment. Her voice is a bed of nails on which she some times lies in self-contempt. As Ruth, Dewhurst was a Rock of Gibraltar. Marchand is better suited to the role, a homebody with artistic impulses who needs a hus band for ballast. Though she has her cranky moments, Wilson's Aunt Helen...
...professional smugglers themselves, a courageous and self-reliant lot who often hold passports from non-NATO nations, regard such discussions as academic. They know the joy they stir. Holland's "Brother Andrew" of Open Doors, the man who pioneered smuggling in 1957, tells of running a vanload of Russian-language Bibles into Czechoslovakia in 1968, surrounded by invading Soviet tanks. Later he got a letter from a mother in the Soviet Union: "Thank you for giving our son a Bible when he was occupying Czechoslovakia...
...money for the military. When they are not putting up recruiting posters, the generals provide a chilling argument. The assumption of The Third World War is that by 1985, the Soviet Union feels strong militarily but is increasingly unsure of its economic capacity and even less certain of its hold on the satellite nations. Its own Asian republics are drawn toward the new China-Japan co-prosperity sphere. Embarrassing riots in Poland convince Kremlin hard-liners that they must re-establish Soviet credibility by force. The decision is made to stir up fighting in black Africa, invade Yugoslavia and then...