Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States must make sure that deterrence to Soviet aggression is maintained by "regaining technological superiority," Edward L. Katzenbach, Director of the Defense Studies Program, said last night. If we accomplish this end, he added, we will hold the respect of our allies...
...leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back, dwell or diverge. The novel can give pages to the description of minutes and skip over years in a sentence; but while a film can dismiss time, it cannot expand it or hold it back to examine it in many facets. "A novel has three tenses, a film has only one." Perhaps the most important part of the book is the highly compact and abstruse discussion of the nature of time in the two media, and the difference between "psychological" and "chronological" time...
Larry Johnson '58, Council president, said that he would try to hold a meeting next Monday, but he feared that too many members would be out of town over the three-day weekend...
...polled 20% of the total vote. Pointing to similar gains in other recent contests, Liberals talked hopefully of a big parliamentary comeback for the party of Gladstone, Palmerston and Lloyd George. More probably, the apparent Liberal strength reflected simple voter dissatisfaction with both the government's failure to hold down the cost of living and Labor's alternative of selective controls-a petulance more readily indulged in in by-elections than in the decisive general election...
...years ago London sent out one of its finest soldiers as Governor of Cyprus with orders to hold the island at all costs as a base for British forces in the Middle East. Doughty Field Marshal Sir John Harding did the job with soldierly ruthlessness. But, the chastening experience of Suez destroyed all thought of a reasserted British dominance in the area, and Cyprus was no longer essential to British strategists. Last week Her Majesty's government announced that in December Harding will be replaced by Sir Hugh Foot, 50, now Governor of Jamaica...