Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief speech De Gaulle paid tribute to opponents (such as ex-Premier Pierre Mendeés-France) "to whom I remain attached by bonds which held firm in the past and which will, I think, hold firm in the future...
...market, the No. 2 coffee country, Colombia, is not so badly off. It has only a little more than 3,000,000 bags in storage, and most of this is the result of an agreement reached last year between Latin America's seven biggest producers to hold some coffee off the market in an effort to prop prices. Just the same, Colombia's exporters are grumbling that holding back only encourages rival African producers to enlarge their share, now about 20%, of the world market. Pegged prices, they insist, allow African producers to undersell them...
...board statement, "that the Government has made decisions . . . without due regard for the necessity of public understanding." In a nine-point program on the control of space and armaments, the board warned that "the risks of revealing secrets must be weighed boldly against the advantage of revealing truths. We hold that the fullest possible information is necessary for citizens to make moral judgments on crucial and complex issues...
Wall Street's experts laid much of the reason for the jump to increased buying pressure from such big investors as mutual funds (which now hold some 4% of all shares on the New York Stock Exchange) and pension funds. Another major reason was that the analysts themselves were changing their gloomy tune and encouraging many a holdout bear to hurry into the market for fear of missing it altogether. In the subtle psychological change, the weight of opinion was against any sharp break back to the recession lows. Instead, Wall Street's shrewd professionals speculated that...
...tucked away "in a rubber-walled cell." O'Connor came to the brink of the same fate. "Through lack of a normal sex-life . . . and through drink, delusions set in . . ." A couple of years later, "I phoned a psychiatrist: 'Shall I,' I said, 'hold on, or come to you?' He said: 'Hold on'; which I did." Slowly, "I ... began to feel my way to health-of a kind...