Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recalls. "Those who had never had a desire to improve themselves -and those who were looking for some way to better their lot. My father-he didn't wear whiskers and he didn't chew tobacco. There wasn't any reason he couldn't hold his head up and look any man straight...
...wait for rain. We'd go to camp meetings and pray for it. Well, out here all you have to do is push a button and you get all the rain [i.e., from deepwell systems] you want. Why, with all this land and all this water, nothing can hold us back...
Dutch estates, the government insisted, had been neither appropriated nor nationalized, but taken into "protective custody." Premier Djuanda declared that the Dutch have two choices: 1) surrender West Irian and resume normal relations with Indonesia; 2) hold West Irian and have their "entire interests in Indonesia liquidated...
Combat Fatigue. In North Philadelphia, after Hagop Kooyoomijian, 53, for the 14th time in his life, chased an armed hold-up man out of his delicatessen, he explained: "I'm not afraid of their guns; I have a heart condition and may die anyway...
...House will hold two separate competitions, each with two cash prizes. One contest, "for original work in creative writing--poetry, drama, or fiction," offers a first prize of $150 and a second prize...