Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dealing with Algeria, the Eisenhower Administration has tried to avoid offending either the Asian-African nations, which are fervently on the side of the rebels, or France, bitterly fighting to keep a hold in her most prized overseas territory. In the United Nations the U.S. has gone along with France's claim that the crisis is a French internal problem...
...human sense, but Rosemarie learned the noises that he made to express emotion. A guttural gurgle meant contentment, and a soft cough meant that he was going to get vicious. When he tried to bite, Rosemarie once knocked him clear across the room, but Knorke did not hold this against...
...near Mexico City, Castro set up a military training camp, held meetings with sympathetic Cuban business and professional men, who apparently dismissed his land-reforming, anti-business attitudes as youthful radicalism. It was agreed that once Batista was ousted, the businessmen would take over, rule Cuba for two years, hold free elections. Last December Castro landed a force of 82 seasick men in Oriente, set up headquarters in the Sierra Maestra. Castro knows that he cannot win merely by avoiding capture. But he does want to become a symbol of opposition that will attract a majority of Cubans and encourage...
...soldiers are tough and cynical; they hold their own officers in nearly as much contempt as they do the Russians. Few have any clear idea of war aims, and most fight merely because they have no alternative. Yet there is always a swaggering consciousness of their own worth. "You know, boys," boasts a veteran, "I think that if there were thirty million of us, we'd take a crack at the whole world...
Lodestone. In Milwaukee, George C. Faust, 51, homeless and unable hold a job since leaving prison last September after a two-year burglary rap, broke a gas station window, stole nothing but called police and asked to be arrested for burglary, told the judge, who noted the penalty was one to ten years, "I'll take ten," got 2½ arrived at the state prison in Waupun in time for supper...