Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John P. Saylor, a husky, doorbell-ringing Navy veteran, over the Democrats' inexperienced Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. (TIME, Sept. 12). Campaigning on the congressional and war records of her son, who was killed in a jet fighter plane five months ago, Candidate Coffey was barely able to hold her own among the miners and factory workers of heavily industrial Cambria County. Hustling Republican Saylor picked up enough support elsewhere in the traditionally Republican 26th to pile up an 8,500 vote majority...
...ducking behind doors as an expense-account amateur. All set to follow Pancho's lead is poker-faced Frank Parker, ranked No. 3, whose prospective opponent for this fall's tour is Francisco Segura. That will leave Ted Schroeder, who says he will never turn pro, to hold the U.S. amateur fort almost alone-at least until the California tennis factories turn out some new models...
...great ocean even shared, and share still, a peculiar vice: chewing narcotic plant materials mixed with lime to release the alkaloids. In southeastern Asia the substance chewed is betel nut; in Peru (where no betel grows) it is coca leaves, the source of cocaine. The little gourds to hold the lime and the decorated spatulas for dipping it out are almost the same in both widely separated regions...
...slow' and expensive. But the Comet was a bird of a different feather and stood an excellent chance to cut into the transport market now dominated by U.S. planemakers. As one U.S. airman said: "America is going to have to produce something within one year. If the jets hold up to expectation, Comet will sweep the board...
Main Chance. At Pryor, Okla., when his boat capsized, J. E. Stamper lost his shirt, hat, shoes, three rods & reels and the outboard motor, but managed to hold on to the 50-lb. catfish he was trying to land...