Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neared graduation in June 1897, J.D.R. Jr. and a roommate decided they wanted to give a dance of their own. At once Mrs. Rockefeller consulted her husband, suggesting that J.D.R. Jr. hold a musicale instead. "If we could have fine music . . . Madame Nordica, if possible. She was born in New England and is a good, true woman and a most delightful singer." But Johnny Rock wanted a dance, and Johnny Rock tactfully declared his independence and got his way; then, having gained his point, he consented to call in the musicians as well. "What a magnificent program...
...because their fat pocketbook buys the best players. There they were in front, without a single 20-game pitcher. (Whitey Ford, their best man, has a record of 18-5, has never had a 20-game season.) What they boasted was an abundance of fine fielders, men who could hold their own at the plate, men who for the most part had come up through the Yankee farm system. And there was an inexhaustible bench full of reserves...
...once I'm painting the voters. What can I say about ordinary people against whom I have no rancor? I find people attractive. So they have to be gulled. Somebody's selling and everybody's gullible." To make his point, Levine has one well-curved doxie hold up a sign reading VELENO, Italian for poison...
Last week the U.S. Export-Import Bank lent Japan $60 million to be used for importing more raw cotton from the U.S. The loan was one part of a broad program designed to boost both overseas and domestic consumption while holding down production. The goal for 1956-57 is a 20%-25% increase over total cotton sales in 1955-56 by doubling exports to 4,500,000 bales while keeping domestic consumption at last year's 9,200,000-bale level or even increasing it. With flexible price supports between 75% and 90% of parity, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft...
...novel's plot concerns Old Cock's attempts to hold on to his job and to keep Arp secure in his Nissen hut, located on the edge of the garbage dump. Among his adversaries are not only the city authorities and the garbage men (who have no respect for a well-conducted dump), but a film company run by a madly implausible American operator named Claygate Corst. Though Corst doesn't have "enough do-re-mi in his pocket to acquire a second-hand mouse-trap," he takes over the decayed movie studios next to the dump...