Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly the ballet master whispered to us from the wing. We backed off the stage and took hold of the cart containing the bridge and groom of the marriage ceremony. As we made the are across the stage, dancers whirled about us. "Hurry up," they whispered. We did not almost sent the cart careening into the orchestra pit. Putting the cart down, we leaned back in our most graceful posture of the evening. The happy couple spread their arms to the audience and the curtain fell...
Lines of Battle. As the third mate's story went into its third week, and fresh relays of lawyers resumed the cross-questioning, the principal issues between Stockholm and Andrea Doria began to come clear. The Swedes insist that the night was clear; the Italians hold that it was "dark and foggy," hence, the captain should have been on the bridge, Stockholm should have cut her speed, posted extra watches and sounded fog warnings. The Swedes insist that the ships were steaming port-to-port, with ample room to pass; the Italians counter flatly that they were starboard...
Last week, at his press conference, the President took hold of the question. Said he: "My people look up the record of every sitting judge that they can find . . . We like to keep a good geographical distribution. But I would never think of making an appointment to the Supreme Court merely on the basis of geographical distribution. Now one part has just as much right as another, and if you get the man that meets the qualifications . . . stands out in the opinion of the American Bar Association and all the rest, well, then, of course, he would...
Last week some Virginia legislators expressed private doubts as to whether the legal web they have spun will hold up for long. But if these bills fail, Virginia is quite ready to think up others. "Virginians," said U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, "are deliberate, even slow, in coming to drastic measures to protect their rights under the federal constitution. But when they do, they are in for the duration...
...this formation, in reality a T, with an overbalanced line, works out, there may not be any better backfield in the Ivy League. But Harvard fans can remember the inauspicious first game in 1954 when Harvard couldn't hold onto the ball, fumbling every time it had possession, finally losing to UMass...