Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...registered a claim for the Democrats in his own "State of the Union" speech to a Democratic caucus last month: "If, out in space, there is the ultimate position . . . then our national goal and the goal of all free men must be to win and hold that position." Johnson began calling space conferences in his green-and-gold office off the Senate gallery. In between he dictated memos on the double, reread the Senate debates that preceded passage of the 1946 Atomic Energy Act, setting up the Atomic Energy Commission and the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy...
...possible U.S. space weapon. His work will parallel Guided Missile Director William Holaday's; unlike Holaday, he will have authority to let contracts and scrub them when experiments do not pan out. With Holaday, he will report directly and frequently to the man who continues to hold a remarkably firm hand on all U.S. defense activities, Neil Hosler McElroy...
Even while election-night returns were rolling in, New Orleans wondered what the political future might hold for its energetic mayor. Under a new 1954 charter pushed by Morrison himself, Morrison's fourth term will be his last. He is anxious to progress in politics, will at midterm in 1960 have two opportunities to make headway: he can oppose the gubernatorial candidate put up by outgoing Governor Earl Long, or he can go after the seat held by Louisiana's powerful U.S. Senate Veteran (21 years) Allen J. Ellender. Best guess was that Morrison would...
Like Alfred the Great? Museum directors who booked the show were delighted that they had a hold on a gallery-packing attraction, only now and then seemed to be on the defensive. "We are representing another side of one of the greatest personalities of our time," said Laurence Sickman, director of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery. "Frankly, we welcomed the opportunity." Detroit Institute of Arts Director Edgar P. Richardson was equally pleased, said, "Our aim is to give the people a chance to observe the pageant of arts in our time, and certainly this is part of that pageant...
...original: . . . And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, My cousin's, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter...