Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky, 74, leading Soviet surgeon, holder of the Stalin Prize (for brilliant work in the treatment of wounds and shock) and the Order of Lenin; in Moscow...
Tacho rammed a Chesterfield into a holder, squinted off toward the Pacific, and grinned. "Arévalo set out to bomb me last spring. Hell, I didn't even move from my house. The trouble with a stunt like that is that the plotter doesn't think it can be turned against him. Right now I'm going to buy the same A20 that Arévalo was going to use against me. I take these boys' toys away from them whenever I can." Tacho's belly shook with laughter as he flopped back into...
Last Call. Gradually a crawling uncertainty seized the Hotel Roosevelt. Up in the candidate's suite, Dewey smoked one Marlboro cigarette after another in his aluminum holder. Young John fell asleep. At midnight, his brother Tom was sent to bed. In the ballroom people started to trickle out. An elevator operator asked if it were true that they were stretching nets outside Dewey's windows. In a gallant effort, a Dewey worker shouted defiantly: "Are we downhearted?" Faintly, the crowd denied...
Alger Hiss, former holder of several Federal posts, sued Whittaker Chambers for $50,000 slander and libel damages in Baltimore yesterday. Hiss charged that the Time editor's statements about his alleged Communist Party membership were false. In Washington, the House Un-American Activities Committee urged spy trials for four persons, including two atomic bomb scientists...
...Force proudly pointed out that the plane was neither specially souped up nor an experimental model like the Navy's previous record holder, the Douglas 0-558 Skystreak. Johnson's plane was an off-the-line production job, fully loaded and ready to fight. And, said Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, it had not even been "full open...