Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northern forests, where impoverished smallholders try to farm their skimpy tracts in the summer and seek lumber-camp jobs the rest of the time. This year, when the big pulp and paper firms had no jobs at all to offer in the pineries, the ruling Agrarians complacently tried to hold the peat-bog farmers and other workers of the land with sky-high agricultural subsidies. The Communists, led by handsome Hertta Kuusinen,* shouted that the men of the forests wanted jobs, not fatter butter prices-and took five northern seats...
...Catholic Club will hold informal lecture and discussion groups Wednesdays at 5 o'clock. These meetings will take place in Mills Room, Building 3-070. Miss Nancy Clark will give information about next week's topic. She can be reached at UN 4-6900, extension...
...young (33), eloquent Baptist minister came to the village, was challenged by a priest (and locally famed Bible expert) to a Bible quiz in Latin and Greek. After four hours and 45 minutes, the Baptist came out the popular victor. Encouraged by his success, Pastor Graziano Cannito began to hold services in a private house, soon chalked up 70 Sant'Angelo conversions. In nearby towns, which he tirelessly covered in his little Fiat, he had made more than 300 other converts...
...Associated Press. May I see your senior officer?" Out of the group stepped Major George Kemper. Topping, a World War II infantry captain, promptly warned the major that the other newsmen were Communists and added: "I suggest you and your group get together and decide whether you want to hold a press conference and, if so, what you would like...
Through the cold war, the U.S. has pressured and persuaded its trade-hungry allies to hold down exports to the Soviet world. But the U.S. was fighting a losing battle. Last week, in a policy switch, Secretary of State Dulles confirmed that Western controls on Red trade will be eased "appreciably." Within a month, about 80 items are expected to be lifted from the 200-plus-item strategic-embargo list, including some chemicals and machine tools, nearly all raw materials, electronic equipment, trucks, cars, ships and perhaps older planes, such...