Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hold is Broken In the Senate cloakrooms last week, the Vice President of the U.S. was jovially hailed by buoyant liberals and flailed by moody Southerners as "Judge Nixon." The reason: by one thunderstriking interpretation from the chair, Richard Nixon had tagged the discomfiting word "unconstitutional" to the much-debated, filibuster-protecting Senate Rule XXII (TIME, Jan. 14). But he had done something else as well: he had raised an emotional floodgate for a piece of vital legislation that has been dammed too long by Senate rules and procedure. Before Congress adjourns, everyone agreed, there will be a sizzling Senate...
From Sir Anthony Eden, Macmillan inherits a comfortable Tory majority of 59 in the House of Commons, with which he will probably hope to hold off a general election until the Tories' five-year term runs out in 1960. Labor can be expected to demand a general election now, on the grounds that a new Prime Minister, and one who was not naturally heir apparent, should request a new mandate. As he came out of n Downing Street the first day, Harold Macmillan was asked whether he favored an early election. "No," he said with a confident bristle...
...called for a ban on the H-bomb without even mentioning safeguards, and labeled the Soviet plan to pull troops out of Central Europe a helpful step to reduce international tensions. Out to prove his "flexibility" in the cause of German reunification, the Chancellor invited the Russians to hold trade talks with West Germany, but also was hoping to get an invitation to visit the U.S. In increasingly showing independence of the U.S., and even querulousness towards it, Adenauer was, whatever else he might be doing, getting in better shape to fight a vigorous election battle...
However they may be improved, the rating systems and their tyranny over TV hold no hope for the viewer who believes that the verdict of democracy is fine for government but folly for television. The viewer is both the unwitting culprit and the ultimate victim of the tyranny. The ratings discourage worthy programs that might make a deeply favorable-but un-measurable-impression (including sales impact), but that do not attract measurably large numbers. They inspire imitations of high-rated programs, touching off cycles of the second-rate...
Although the resolution did not specifically mention Harvard, its language directly contradicted reasons given by the University for its action last week. The Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports, which recommended Jordan's release, stated that he was considered "a poor teacher" who did not hold the confidence of players and other students...