Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concern to men of all faiths. However, Ben-Gurion's and Goldmann's "prestige' may be high among Zionists, but your reference to it as high among "Jews" is dubious. Most Jews are indifferent or hostile to Zionism. We reject the "Jewish" nationalism of Zionism and hold that Judaism is a religious faith of universal values...
...three years after he married plain, amiable Alta Haskins. In 1935 he enrolled at the now-defunct Commonwealth College, a Communist-front school at Mena (pop. 4,500) in the western part of the state. He stayed only a few weeks-long enough, he said later, to get a hold on Commonwealth's slant. It was also long enough to get him elected president of the student body...
...Second Game belonged to burly righthanded pitcher Bob Turley. Bullet Bob had come on in the late innings just the night before to hold off the Sox. Now he relieved Larsen in the sixth. His fast ball hopped over the corners, kept Chicago batters off balance and kept the Yankees teetering on top of a 5-to-4 lead...
...Mother Martyria (Erika Maddaus) keeping the administration running efficiently, the sisters perform a repertory of a dozen religious plays, do social work in the slums, manufacture statuary, also maintain a stiff schedule of devotions. They keep silence all day except during "business hours" between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., hold many prayer vigils. At 6 p.m. each Friday, for instance, they gather in penance for the wrongs committed by the Germans against the Jews. "It cries, it cries without relief, the blood on our hands . . . no man can ever tell how mountain-high this burden," the sisters pray in unison...
...brothers out-unioned the unionists in 1898 by launching the Filene's Cooperative Association: clerks and salesgirls were elected to the store's board of directors, were sole arbiters of the store hours and holidays. The employee-directors did not work out. But other benefits took firm hold: an employee restaurant, a clinic, a library, a clubhouse, a credit union. Profit-sharing, retirement benefits, summer Saturday closings, systematic job evaluations, even sending executives to the Harvard Business School-all were pioneered by the Filenes. Said Lincoln: "Every release of the worker to more use of his mind, every...