Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Others like him cheerfully proffered their savings in zlotys in a vain effort to buy for themselves some of the items laid out in a mouth-watering display of U.S. consumer goods at the first U.S. exhibit to appear at Communist Poland's annual International Trade Fair. To hold back the crowds, the exhibit had to be closed briefly every few hours-while the Russian exhibit went begging. See FOREIGN NEWS, Nylon Wonderland...
...sweating two hours, the crewmen inched Flugum up with rope and static line. Finally he was at the hatch, his elbows almost in. A crewman seized each hand, a third grabbed at his fatigues. Flugum could not help himself, the sweat-slick hands of the rescuers could not hold the unbearable weight. Flugum tumbled down again in the roaring torrent...
...witness declined to say whether he had voted for the ouster (he did). Hutcheson, it then became apparent, had his own rationale for personal behavior. Asked if he is familiar with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s code of ethics, which states that Fifth Amendment witnesses have "no right to-hold office in his union," Hutcheson replied...
...second describes the tattered survivors at Carthage and the love story of Dido and Aeneas. The Berlioz libretto is warmed-over Virgal shot through with a Shakespearean flavor (Berlioz described parts of it as "stolen from Shakespeare and Virgilianized"). To give the sprawling work a proper production and still hold it to a manageable 4½ hours (with only minor cuts), Covent Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources. Sir John Gielgud got his first crack at opera direction. Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom (with all six feet of her hair unwound) was cast...
...incomes-and the taxes paid on them-have rapidly increased, so have the ways in which embattled taxpayers hold down the Government's take. Every businessman knows about such old standbys as the farm that runs at a tax-deductible loss, the "business" expense for a yacht, a car, a trip, even a country-club membership. But comparatively few are aware of another way of saving by the wise use of trusts and foundations, which can be set up for either charity or personal projects, and often reward the taxpayer with huge savings. Until recently only taxpayers...