Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect of the decision was to return the Fikes case to the Alabama courts for retrial-this time without use of the tainted confessions. More important was the overall effect: once again, and this time by a split decision, the court had inflamed the suspicions of critics who hold that too many of its recent decisions are anchored more in sociology than in the solid substance...
...amassed his fortune in real estate, ranch land, banking and insurance, built himself a $500,000 home, now is constructing a $125 million, 120-acre shopping center in Dallas, where air-conditioned walkways will link four office buildings, 150 stores and a 1,000-room hotel. Blakley will hold his Senate seat only until an April 2 special election names the heir to the last two years of Daniel's term...
...weekend and award festivities were over, and Ingrid, unruffled despite the raucous cries of flacks, newsmen and admirers, boarded a Paris-bound plane. Would she stay longer next time? "The wind blows this way and that," she had said earlier. "I don't know what the future will hold...
...small boy who developed an emotional trauma from so many beatings at home that he can only say the word "pump," for the 30-year-old spastic who after 17 years of grueling work is at last able to carry on a conversation and to hold down a job as a bookkeeper...
...babies have the patience to hold off their wails till birth. Throughout history some restless infants were reported to have cried in the womb, but until relatively modern times doctors and midwives often thought it best not to publicize the fact lest they be accused of witchcraft. Last week in Britain's Lancet, a doctor described a latter-day occurrence of the phenomenon, known as vagitus uterinus (from the Latin vagire, to squall...