Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever Connally meant, his committee had a few questions they wanted to talk over with the man Harry Truman had picked for his Secretary of State. That a Senate committee should, for the first time in history, hold an open hearing on a new Secretary of State was an expression of some doubt about Dean Acheson-but it was a doubt that was never clearly defined, nor forcefully defended. Obviously, in an open hearing, Acheson could not talk about top-level policy. But the Senate committee did want to hear about the international affairs of Acheson's affluent Washington...
Only in Great Britain did opinion hold firm that the U.S. was not softening its policy. Yet even in Britain the sense of urgency was diminishing. The North Atlantic Alliance had official backing, but the more difficult problems of Western Union had stopped progress toward that "grand design...
...convinced," he added, "that only a person who is certain of the justness of his position can stand up under 34 days of unjust and insincere attack. I have attempted to look upon this situation with a feeling of sympathy toward those men on the Council who hold their positions more important than integrity...
...death, which shocked the University and the literary world with its suddenness, ended an association with Harvard that began in 1927 when he came here as a graduate student. In 1946 he was appointed to the Boylston Professorship, one of the youngest men ever to hold that post...
...college records in the future, many girls will hesitate before joining that organization. In that measure, the Radcliffe authorities would be unwittingly aiding the enemies of free political choice and belief. It is quite possible that the RAYD could not muster enough members willing to risk their careers to hold a charter this term, or next term, or sometime in the future. The RAYD would simply be forced out of existence...