Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This huge Unionist victory was due in no small part to a continuous campaign of vilification of the North, conducted in the Republic south of the border. "How can I hold out the hand of friendship [to Eire] when [she has] a dagger in one hand, a pistol in the other, and a jemmy in her pocket?" complained the North's Prime
...approved Argentine fashion, the union's officers had taken their demands to the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, the preserve of María Eva Duarte de Perón. The secretariat, acting on hold-the-line advice from the nation's new economic council, met the union's demands only halfway. When their Peronista officers failed to protest, the union's rank & file revolted...
...machines, an important job, as an irate student has been known to wreck one when it failed to pay off with free games. Competition by students for the available machines is occasionally keen; during reading period a group of the buzz-and-flash enthusiasts set up a syndicate to hold down a single game, assigning members to occupy it at designated hours...
...Crimson first line of Captain Dave Key, Low Proston, and Bill Garrity can either hold down the Rileys' scoring or match them goal for goal, the varsity has a better than-even chance...
Meanwhile, the "Secret" report of Deputy Commissioner Dwyer had broken loose in the Boston Post. The American also procured large sections of that document, and printed it in installments. Just how these newspapers got hold of the report was never revealed, but it made sensational reading. There were "Shocking revelations" of homosexual activities at Framingham, where laws were "flouted" and the state of Massachusetts "mocked." The report claimed that discharged inmates who had formed: emotional attachments" at Framingham were allowed to return for weeks at a time. In his charges against Dr. Van Waters, the Commissioner included such a case...