Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian men and (more importantly) women" trying to live closer to the Holy Spirit than their neigh- bors. "More and more, by a kind of fatality, you see them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while you hold your breath and turn away your eyes in fear, the break comes; condemnation or secession, what difference does it make. A fresh name has been added to the list of Christianities...
...nightmare began when the girls suddenly became possessed. They laughed insanely, screamed, danced, jumped about, became so frenetic that it took five men to hold one girl down. The first attack lasted five hours, but others soon followed. A girl might suddenly start screaming "He is coming! He is coming! He is going to choke me!" If another girl went to her aid, she was soon being choked too. Some girls complained of being pricked by needles, would thereupon go into a frenzy of body slapping, giggling, jumping and screaming. "One night," says an instructor, "was the worst ever...
...Louis' Famous-Barr Co. has been matching discount prices since 1954, when it offered to equal any price reported by a customer, and has the capital to buy carloads of appliances at lower prices than most small discounters can command. Many other big stores from coast to coast hold "warehouse sales" to take advantage of the discounters' low-overhead, high-volume merchandising idea...
Iranian oil law passed this month specifies that the state company must hold a 30% interest in any joint venture, assuring Iran of at least a 65% slice of the profits. Like it or not, Iran has so much promising oil land that at least two U.S. companies are now considering moving into Iran to explore under the terms...
...before the checks clear, the check kiter gets a fat bankroll. But to elude detection, the kiter must always beat the outstanding bad check to the bank and make it good with another bad one. It also helps to have a top bank officer in on the deal to hold off bad checks if the timing misfires, and to initial big checks for immediate payment...