Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidate Lleras thus becomes the unexpected holder of delicately balanced power under his own post-Rojas plan for joint Liberal-Conservative control of Colombia. In the original deal, backed by the junta, political posts throughout the nation were to be split fifty-fifty between Liberals and Conservatives for a cooling-off period of twelve years; the first President would be a Conservative, the next a Liberal, and so on. Hopes were that the truce would cancel out the traditional inter-party hatreds that underlie the rural civil war; at the end of twelve years normal two-party politics could take...
From the pages of newspapers in New York, Los Angeles and Newark last week peered a most unusual cat. Topped by a high-style Emme hat, clenching a long cigarette holder suavely in its mouth, it purred a typically catty message: "I found out about Joan. That palace of theirs has wall-to-wall mortgages. And that car? Darling, that's horsepower, not earning power. They won it in a 50? raffle." The most important fact about Joan was how she managed to dress well "on his income." She shopped for her clothes at Manhattan's Ohrbach...
...quite a trick just to find running room. Spikes slice close to bare shanks in the opening sprint for the pole; elbows have a habit of splaying wide when the pack gangs up on a turn. And when the pack contains men like Hungary's crack Istvan Rozsavolgyi, holder of three world records for outdoor middle-distance running, the problem is even more complicated. For while Ron runs to win and only as fast as he has to, Rozsy runs against the clock. He knows from wind-broken experience that setting a new record for the indoor mile...
Saturday afternoon at Holder Court, club representatives and hundreds of sophomores shivering in the icy wind stand with hands thrust in pockets or holding frigid beer cans, grouping and regrouping, talking in fast desperate undertones, trying to bargain friends into the same group, unload undesirables elsewhere, bid a sad goodby (as if parting forever) to classmates joining other clubs...
...Holder tower looms high above the thick mud that clogs the cordovans and white sneakers. "Named in honor of Christopher Holder," the plaque reads, "a member of the Society of Friends in America in the seventeenth century, devout, loyal to duty, patient in suffering." Gargoyles leer down at the spectacle over the cloister arcade and from a phonograph stuck out the second-floor window of four entry the voice of a rock-and-roll singer blares fortissimo...