Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans were well under way, the "Norfolk Committee for Public Schools," led by Unitarian Minister James Brewer and Realtor Irving Truitt, plumped publicly for "a strong and complete public-school system"-and if necessary, gradually integrated. The committee's key point: no city can pretend to attract or hold business, industry or federal installations, e.g., the Norfolk Naval Base, with public schools closed. Next move: to warn the Governor and the legislature "that the great majority of responsible Norfolk citizens strongly favor continuous operation of a free and efficient public-school system under local direction...
...that easy. Although USIS officials had pronounced him fluent in English, Abdie would have a long way to go to hold his own with U.S. prep schoolers. He was put through every textbook in the USIS language center, and when he was officially awarded the scholarship in April, he began taking special lessons with the wife of Consul General Henry H. Ford. Consul Robert Sherwood took him home to play with his two boys, aged 7 and 11. Soon Abdie replaced salaam with...
...causes Ol' Debbil Walston no end of trouble by mooning about the wife he had to leave behind when he took on his new incarnation. "Wives," declares Walston woundedly, "cause me more trouble than the Methodist Church." In the longest-distance phone call in cinema history, he gets hold of Operative Lola (Gwen Verdon), still infernally seductive at the age of 172. Lola does not get what she wants, but the Senators do win the pennant and Hunter is mercifully transformed back into Robert Shafer...
...each meeting, Pusey and Bundy will hold informal talks on local solicitation problems...
...technical troubles extend even to the actors. Kulukundis's kisses and Propper's right hooks were equally unconvincing. As for the set, I gather that it was the work of several hands, and therefore hold my fire, except to mention that it seemed that Miss Ryder did her cooking and dishwashing in Kulukundis's bedroom...