Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Superficially the odds favored Nasser. The Suez Canal was his to have and hold, and any challenger would have to wrest it from him. But Menzies too had sources of strength. His five-nation committee represented 18 nations who between them account for 95% of the Suez Canal traffic. And he had pressures to bring to bear which might make even an impetuous strongman hesitate...
...current French debate, the phrase "federative status" is a new euphemism for an independent republic of Algeria attached to France only by the same kind of loose ties that hold the British Commonwealth together. The colonists in the Hall of Spectacles could scarcely believe their ears. The doctrine L'Algerie, c'est la France had lost its greatest exponent. And clearly, France's top military man was admitting that the rebellion could not be put down and the old order restored by military repression...
...place in art was far more that of teacher, peacemaker and counselor than lawgiver. He was ten years older than most of the impressionist greats, and this induced in him a fatherly urge to take time off from his own painting to patch up quarrels, round up shows, hold together the impressionists as a group. Because he remained in the midstream of the art movements of his day. experimenting with each new movement and sponsoring innovations, his works lacked the distinctive quality that makes his contemporaries, Degas, Monet, Manet, Renoir and Cezanne, recognizable at a glance...
...Today I want to demonstrate the truth of a single proposition: the Republican Party is the party of the future. I hold that the Republican Party and platform are right in 1956 because they are most closely in league with the future. And for this reason [they] will be decisively approved...
ANTIMONOPOLY COMPLAINT against Fruehauf Trailer Co., largest producer of truck trailers, was filed by Federal Trade Commission. FTC charged Fruehauf, which has increased revenues by 200% since 1949, had swallowed competitors illegally, was getting strangle hold on industry by offering special financing deals...