Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enosis. In Athens, the English-language Athens News refused a classified ad stating "Greek lady desires to hold conversations with English gentleman on the Cyprus issue in exchange for lessons in Greek, German or piano" on the ground that "the lessons would be doomed to failure...
...random, read many letters from the U.S. public that said something like "Don't let's have a war just on account of Quemoy and Matsu," but many, many more that simply pleaded "Let's not get into a war." The basic U.S. policy on Quemoy-hold the 'islands against Communist aggression in the Pacific, but negotiate if the Communists agree to a cease-fire-was obviously not understood by everybody...
...will also use part of our Ford funds to hold the annual House dinner," Finley said. "Last year we had T.S. Eliot, and, although it's hard to beat that, we hope to do as well this year...
...University Center also houses most of the undergraduate extra-curricular organizations, which are supported financially by the university. They sometimes find the going rough in an institution whose student body is so strongly oriented toward fraternity activity, and one person may hold positions in as many as six organizations...
...catch and hold his audience with each role in turn. But he can leave it only the memory of a man in a dinner-jacket on a bare stage...