Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cunning Bun. Around 10:30 the Nixons quietly left. Their takeoff was followed by the departure of stiff, proper Society Matron Mrs. Merriweather Post, hair in cunning bun, dignity coolly intact. Hardly anyone cared; the band blasted out with Hold That Tiger, and for hours that tiger was really loose; jitterbugging, rock 'n' rolling, the crowd poured it on. At length, in the early hours of the morning, the party and the liquor began to subside. Tired, rumpled and glassy-eyed, the guests found their way to the door. Last to leave: Senator Russ Long, his face glowing...
...this uniting-Europe mood, the six Prime Ministers also agreed on the establishment of Euratom, a European Atomic Energy Community. A supranational council will hold title to all fissionable materials possessed by the Six. save those reserved for military use. With the aid of the U.S., which has already agreed to supply technical advice and nuclear fuel, Euratom's planners hope to be producing 3.000,000 kw-h of electricity annually by 1963. This would carry Western Europe into the age of atomic power just about as fast as the Soviet Union (whose hoped-for goal...
...only a rehash of the previous day's trading, and are rarely models of literary clarity. They are so carefully hedged with ifs, ands and buts that the writer can always look back to prove omniscience, no matter which way the market turns. One recent sample: "If stocks hold at their present levels, the prospect of a continuation of the current trading range for the next few months appears likely. On the other hand, if the range is penetrated shortly on the downside, a deterioration of investor confidence could result in lower prices...
Among the casualties of the Government's tight-money policy have been owners of U.S. savings bonds, who hold $56 billion of the total $277 billion Treasury debt. As other interest rates have risen, the rate on savings bonds has fallen far behind. As a result, sales have slumped (in 1956 the Government hoped to sell $5.65 billion, sold only $5 billion), and the number of bonds cashed in has soared. In January alone, the Treasury paid out $136 million more than it sold in Series E bonds, after the highest redemption level for any month in nearly eleven...
...that point it is plain that the famed author of Rebecca has not lost her tricky gift for making the reader hold his breath when literary esthetes tell him he should be holding his nose. To her romantic shopgirl's imagination. Novelist Du Maurier brings a proficiency for making imminent doom race impending revelation neck and neck, chapter by chapter. Loyal fans need only be told that they will be nervous wrecks by the end of The Scapegoat...