Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Gaillard, then Finance Minister, devalued the franc last summer, pressure eased. As Premier he courageously curbed credit and imports, decreased the subsidies that are the bane of the French economy. Understood in last week's aid agreement was his pledge to hold his tough line, keeping 1958's budget deficit to a "manageable" $1.4 billion, and the trade deficit around $400 million. By 1959 Gaillard expects the retooled economy to stand on its own with the world. Since last December it has been doing just that. Exports, including such invisible factors as tourism, exceeded imports...
...Middle Way. "Anything can happen," says a Western observer in Colombo. "We were bound to see a certain amount of assertion of independence in a country where until a few years ago citizens couldn't send telegrams, make long-distance calls, make out a bill of lading or hold a government job unless they spoke English. I just hope it doesn't get out of hand." The hand is Lawyer Banda's, fluttering excitedly out of his white robes as he says: "If we have peace in the world for the next 25 years, then I feel...
...special honor to Ojeda. Larrazabal made that visit the occasion for his first policy speech. He promised fulfillment of lawful commitments, protection of foreign investments and guaranteed political freedom. The statement on investments pleased the oilmen and steelmen who hold most of the U.S.'s $3 billion investment in Venezuela. In the aftermath of the revolt, some resentment had flared against the U.S. for having maintained comfortable relations with the dictator; with this feeling was mingled a reaction against recent cutbacks in U.S. imports of Venezuelan...
...When I get into the gate, it's instinct mainly. I hold both reins in one hand, crossed in my palm. I twist a forefinger around a lock of the horse's mane. I never have a tight rein because the horse would rear up. He has to have a free head, but you have to have that pull on your finger. You have to sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate...
...religious passion. It was this, says Stanislaus, that prompted Jim as a stripling to say to the mature Yeats: "I regret that you are too old to be influenced by me." Argues Stanislaus: "What my brother said, or meant to say . . . was in plain words that Yeats did not hold his head high enough for a poet of his stature, that he made himself too cheap with people who were not worthy to dust his boots...