Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed to move into the South in this fashion," he cried, "the concentration camps may as well be prepared now, because there will not be enough jails to hold the people of the South who will oppose the use of raw federal power forcibly to commingle white and Negro children in the same schools and in places of public entertainment...
...hard-up Depression time, and Dick borrowed $1,000 on a life insurance policy, got hold of a battered Oldsmobile coupé to go campaigning 40,000 miles across the state and got elected. He was sworn in by his father, the chief justice (appointed) and then began to rack up such a record of efficiency and integrity-he cut 102 state departments, bureaus and commissions to 17, even dropped his father from two patronage jobs in the state university system-that he was able the next year to run for U.S. Senator and win. In January 1933 Dick Russell...
...preview of the presidential elections set for next Feb. 23, last week's results proved little. If Frondizi could work out a pact with the Peronistas and still hold onto his present following, he would win-but Perón has scorned Frondizi's overtures and shows no sign of warming up. The People's Radicals might well follow up last week's victory-if they can find a candidate capable of uniting the party-by pulling in the Frondizi backers, who were demoralized by his small vote in the Assembly election. The current front runner...
...proper papers, pettishly tore up his passport and mewled, "I don't want to go back to those evil men" when ear-bent cops threatened to toss him back to the border guards Numbed by the nonsense, the lawmen in advertently let Davis flit free long enough to hold a press conference ("German ground is sympathetic to my ideas") bagged him again a few hours later, then nailed him for good after he took off once more. Said an exasperated judge, after a preliminary hearing at Hannover produced another seminar on world citizenship, no passport...
...assistant. To William Juxon, the Church of England's Bishop of London (and future Archbishop of Canterbury), Charles said: "I am going from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown, where no disturbance can be." And to his executioner: "I shall say but a short prayer and, when I hold out my hands thus, strike." The ax flashed and Cromwell's will was done-but so anxious was he to make sure, that he later went to the coffin and searched the wound with his fingers...