Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker...
...craggy peaks with terraces stepped up the sides and brown parched river valleys. Taiyuan's danger could be seen with the naked eye. The walls of the square city hug the slope of a mountain range sprinkled with pillboxes held by the Communists. Marshal Yen's forces hold a line past the first group of hills to the west, where Taiyuan's rich coal and iron resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds can plunk artillery shells into the city and blanket two good airfields to the south...
...years as a U.S. possession, the island has had three military and 15 civil governors, all presidential appointees. Rexford G. Tugwell was the last mainlander to hold the job, Jesús T. Piñero (1946-48) the first native-born governor...
...there iniquity in my tongue? Cannot my taste discern perverse things? . . . Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred...
Summers, the clan moves to their 122-acre farm, where a hilltop had been leveled to make an athletic field. To this day, Tim Sr. has trouble calling off the names of his offspring, usually ends any listing by saying: "Now, hold on-have I got them...