Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the U.S. aircraft carrier Bennington sailed majestically into Sydney Harbor to help Australia celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 7, 1942), its 2,970 officers and men were blithely unaware of one important matter: the University of Sydney would hold its annual Commemoration Day festivities, when students stage zany parades, pull off outlandish pranks, and badger citizens for donations to charity. Last week the proud Bennington became the victim of the most ignominious fate of all-capture by "pirates...
...Hampshire senate, politicians long inured to the alarums and excursions of splenetic Publisher Loeb agreed last week that his latest blast-"that stinking hypocrite in the White House"-was too offensive to ignore. By 15 to 8, the senators voted to hold a hearing this week on a Republican resolution to censure Republican Loeb...
Wyszynski laid his conditions on the line for Gomulka's emissaries: release of all imprisoned bishops, priests and monks, full implementation of the 1950 church-state agreement, with special emphasis on restoring religious teaching in the schools, plus an agreement to hold general elections. The conditions were promptly accepted, and on last Oct. 29. the cardinal climbed into his black 1947 Ford and drove back to Warsaw. That night the cardinal's car swung into the courtyard of the primate's palace and its headlights picked out the kneeling forms of the cardinal's personal staff...
...rubber, which is almost same as natural rubber. U.S. says it gave Goodrich more than $1.5 million for synthetic rubber research on condition that discoveries be revealed to all rubber makers. Goodrich claims process was discovered privately by Goodrich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc., in which Goodrich and Gulf Oil Corp. hold 50-50 interest...
...disease has a rather exotic origin; it apparently began somewhere in the Far East, and travelling West, enjoyed moderate success with European varieties of elm. It was not until 1919, however, that Cerastomella really caught hold; beetles carried to this country on elm logs to be used for furniture veneer somehow escaped, and carried the fungus to the Elysian Fields of Unius americana. Travelling up the Connecticut River Valley into New England, and westward as far as the Mississippi, the beetle-fungus team has outrun its pursuers, cutting a determined swath which pathologists estimate will exterminate most of the genus...