Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine, flaring disrespect for the outside world, coupled with a profound understanding of Georgia and its politics, carried both Talmadges to the governor's mansion. As governor, Herman inherited and refined his father's credo: keep down the cities, hold the Negro to his proper place in God's order. But today, city and Negro are both restless in the boom that is sweeping Georgia from its mountains and red-clay hills to its plains and coast. Cities outpace the struggling counties, the Negro vote leaps upward, cattle are becoming more valuable than cotton, industry outproduces...
...Long and Theodore Bilbo in the Senate, Gene laid his plans carefully for 1938, when Walter George would run again. As with all Talmadge political plans, they revolved around intensive cultivation of Georgia's farmers, for under Georgia's unit-vote system, it is the farmers who hold the balance of power...
There was Shortstop Pee Wee Reese, a remarkably chipper 37 despite 14 seasons of big-league ball. And there, walking out to the mound to hold off the challengers, was the granddaddy of the squad, Sal Maglie, a scowling, blue-bearded craftsman uncomfortably close...
...football Ivy League 1956, seems little different from football Ivy League 1954. Whereas the Agreement might imply that football will only hold a minor place in the overall life of a University, the opposite seems to be true. Today, for instance, some 30,000 fans, will pile into the Crescent for a football game, and moreover, Eddie Kaw, the great Big Red fullback of the early 20's will be honored for being named to the football Hall of Fame...
Crimson Coach Bruce Munro, lacking enough players to hold regular scrimmages, has concentrated on kicking and passing drills with little contact work this week. Cornell has been working on fundamentals and running in practices...