Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hike that invariably includes at least one hill. His workday is a 12-to 19-hour affair, punctuated by impulsive trips into the countryside to inspect one of his projects. Out of long experience, his bodyguards always keep packed bags at the office, and Turkish Airlines is instructed to hold open at least two seats on every Ankara-Istanbul flight. Along with his energy goes a monumental memory for detail. Says one aide: "He knows things like telephone numbers, how many bags of cement such and such a construction project will require, and how much rainfall there was yesterday...
Some specific freedoms won in October still hold. The lot of the peasants improved as the regime cut back compulsory deliveries and the number of collective farms dwindled to a token 1,724 (10,000 in Stalin's time). "The new fences," observed Warsaw's Swiat, "testify to the return of the peasants' sense of ownership." Relations with the Catholic Church are far better than in other Soviet-bloc countries, though the Vatican reports that "government interference with religious appointments tends to become more rigorous than last year...
...regular presidential election; prevailing public opinion held that an honest election required restoration of constitutional guarantees for at least 90 days before the June 1 balloting. And the U.S. Government, whose approval and arms shipments are invaluable to Batista, put discreet pressure on him to observe the law and hold free elections...
...direction (TIME, Jan. 6), the trustees suddenly turned on him. It apparently made little difference that the chapter of the American Association of University Professors at Albany state teachers college and the university senate endorsed the report. The trustees not only reprimanded Carlson for releasing it; they seemed to hold him personally responsible for the news stories that appeared in his favor. By that time there was little doubt that Carlson's days were numbered...
...enough, they hit each other so hard that they "fuse," forming helium 3 (and a neutron) or tritium (and a proton), and give off energy. This process happens explosively in H-bombs, but to control the reaction, the deuterium must be confined. Since ordinary, solid walls cannot hold the gas at the necessary temperature of many million degrees, fusion reactors use walls of magnetic force. They are strong, do not cool the gas and are not damaged by it. But the machines' complexity proves that magnetic walls are hard to handle...