Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chadds Ford garage owner of the bad Johnstons: "We all know them-good-lookin' boys, but they always had them $100 bills and them fancy cars even though they never was too healthy for work." Says a family friend: "Bruce is a moral man who doesn't hold with drinking and swearing. His word is his bond. But he won't be doublecrossed...
...just been sitting there observing how the snow melted off my shoes and made a little rivulet on the floor of the bus, when those words took hold...
...platforms. The effect was that of a three-ring circus, with the actors singing, dancing and sometimes shoving their way among the spectators. Reviewers praised the show for maintaining the satiric spirit of Voltaire's 18th-century masterpiece, which describes the spiritual education of a young man struggling to hold on to his belief that "this is the best of all possible worlds" despite the series of disasters that he and his friends experience. The play calls for sophisticated singers and dancers. At the Loeb...
...however, the union agreed to hold its wage increase in the second year to less than 6 per cent, it would bring the contract into compliance with the guidelines...
...outside of their apartment, threw her to the floor, struck her three times and choked her. "I decided to submit to him, to what he wanted." John Rideout admitted that they had been arguing, but he told a different story: "She hit me first. She slapped me. I grabbed hold of her arms. She slapped me again. Then I felt pain. She had kneed me in the groin." Soon afterward, he said, they made up, kissed and had sex. "It was voluntary on her part," he insisted...