Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faithful to the English. In court last week, Ridgeway's lawyer tried to hold against her the extravagance of her preparations. Cried he: "The sartorial brilliance of her trousseau might have come from The Arabian Nights" But the jury awarded her ?10,500 damages. In tears, Liana turned down nearly four-fifths of the award and accepted only ?2,200. She said: "I do not want the money. I do not want to ruin...
...down the Blue Nile and the neighboring Atbara when moist seasonal winds blowing across central Africa hit the high mountains of Ethiopia. A dam at the outlet of Lake Tana on the Blue Nile's headwaters will deepen the lake by about 13 feet, and allow it to hold in reserve for the dry season some 1,400 billion gallons of water. With necessary roads, power plants, etc. in wild Ethiopia, this dam is expected to cost $28 million...
...Spanish Protestant, he said, "cannot hold official position in the government, nor can he rise to officer's rank in the army unless he conceals his religious beliefs. He is not allowed to practice his faith in public. The chapel he attends must not display any exterior evidence that it is a place of worship. It cannot advertise its existence-not even with a bulletin board. It cannot be listed in the public directories." According to Bigart, a Protestant clergyman "suffers much the same type of persecution as the Roman Catholic clergy endure in Communist Hungary," although he noted...
...Diebert. Exposure to too much sun may cause it; cancer of the skin is three times as prevalent in the South as in the North. Cancer may also be included among occupational hazards. Men who mend fishnets for a living have a high rate, added Cameron, because they hold the bobbin in their mouths, and get tar smudges on their lips. Fumes from tar-surfaced roads may also be a hazard. Pacific island natives who chew tar-bearing betel nuts have a high rate of cancer of the cheek...
These new developments have apparently impressed Netherlanders. Last week they made an offer to cease hostilities and hold a round table conference at the Hague on March 15. The Republicans rejected it, since it made no provision for the withdrawal of troops nor for favorable settlement of the two-year argument over recognition. But it is not too much to expect that the Dutch will concede even more in the near future. The Republic is clearly not the "ghost" they thought it to be, but expensively alive. Nations vitally concerned in Asia, particularly England and the U.S., will undoubtedly apply...