Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took Wach's place at Columbia, will handle the 136-pound duties. Bob Claffin is a reliable 175-pounder and heavyweight Howle Houston is picking up more and more wrestling know-how to go along with his tremendous strength and cat-like reflexes. He should be able to hold his own against the rest of the heavyweight opposition...
Israel's strangest splinter group was composed of 33,000 Palestinian Arabs, who had full rights to vote and to put up their own candidates, although their campaigning was restricted. (They need travel permits, and may not hold public meetings in areas occupied by the Israeli army.) Last week in Arab Nazareth, Moslem women complained that their religion forbade them to be photographed for identity cards or to lift their purdahs for identification at the polls in the presence of men. After some head-scratching, the government's election committee decided that Arab women could vote without having...
...daring assertion that, as Communists, they could hold opinions in conflict with the party line. As Italians waited to see what-if anything-happened to the rebels, Painter Guttuso went back to work, put the finishing touches on a new picture, Sulphur Miners, wooden thighs...
Does he use measurements to paint by? "Oh, no. I use this eye mostly [pointing to his left one] and I hold my head in one spot, like a camera, instead of ducking it around. That may sound a bit rigid, but I think craftsmanship should be uppermost. You build the picture up, very faithfully. The less art you try to put into it the better...
Gable has one strong scene in which he "talks down" a navigator who is trying to land a pilotless bomber. Significantly, this is the movie's one big outdoor sequence. Back inside headquarters, where drama depends on the reading of lines, Cinemactor Gable cannot always hold the center of the stage...