Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virginia: The States' Rights ticket, headed by former Internal Revenue Commissioner Coleman Andrews, will not win but may hold the balance of power in a toss-up state. Last week's estimate: Adlai ahead...
...some old, familiar phrases in what reporters came to call "The speech." The correspondents coined their own titles for the standard phrases, e.g., "the old shoe" for his statement that the U.S. "has prosperity and peace to boot," "the weight-lifting act" for his line that "every man can hold up Dwight Eisenhower to his children as a man who has faith in God, faith in America and who has restored dignity and respect to the highest office in the land," and "the bush-leaguer" for his assertion that "Adlai Stevenson just isn't in the same league with...
...sometimes used to scrape calcified deposits from the inside of a bursa. In psychogenic rheumatism no physical cause can be found for the patient's undeniable physical ills. Symptoms most often resemble those of fibrositis and the two are often confused. (Adding to the confusion, some experts hold that the disorders are really one and the same.) Exceptionally common in the armed forces under stress of battle. Only treatment : psychotherapy-an understanding general practitioner can handle mild cases, but stubborn ones may need the analyst's couch...
...also smell its prey without breathing. When the snake's forked tongue flicks in and out, it conveys odor-laden air to smell organs inside the mouth. After the snake has sunk its fangs in a small, warm animal, it does not try to hold it. The animal runs a few feet or yards until the poison brings it down. Then the snake follows by scent, flicking its delicate tongue, and starts the slow business of swallowing the meal. The injected venom contains a substance that starts the digestive process before the animal reaches the snake's stomach...
Onward & Upward. To make sure it gains, Dresser has always done its best to let every new family member keep its individuality, run itself with its own officers, subject only to Dresser's overall direction. Says Mallon: "We hold on tenaciously to all the operating benefits that go with small-size companies, with Dresser Industries acting as a management group doing all those things where bigness is important." Proving the idea in the last seven years, Dresser found and bought four more companies-Magcobar, Lane-Wells Co., Southwestern Industrial Electronics and Guiberson Corp.-and helped them grow bigger...