Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another requisite-self-determination for the Cypriots-has already been laid down by Greece. The big question is whether these demands are reconcilable, or whether events have gone past the point of no return. Britain's attempt to hold its Cyprus base by repression is fast destroying the good will of the population, which is necessary to any solution. But if Britain has to back down, it is entitled to know that any settlement it makes is not undone by some future wave of passion, such as eventually drove its troops first from Egypt itself and then from...
...enjoy himself on the golf course. This year, when doctors told him to quit his classes entirely, Beharrell, 18, happily put in his free time polishing up his game. He did a fine job. At Troon, Scotland last week he had the shots, the stamina and the concentration to hold off Glasgow Insurance-man Leslie Taylor, 5 and 4, and win the British amateur championship...
...cold winter's morning he made his run. Sheila 11 slogged willingly into vast combers. "It was simply terrifying," Hayter says. "She must have gone through surf at tremendous speed, and I don't know how far. I knew if I could not hold her straight I could not get her through. It was a measure of my need to get in that I tried...
...inflated to a rock-hard 60 Ibs. (until this year competitors had settled for a relatively soft 40 Ibs.), and to make matters worse, the track's new blacktop surface seemed especially abrasive. Every time there was an accident, the yellow caution lights went on, warning drivers to hold their positions. During the unregulated moments when the track was clear, drivers roared to top speed. So the long grind degenerated into a series of lopes and sprints...
...other nations the problem of communication is not so acute. In England, says British Historian D. W. Brogan, "everybody above a certain level knows everyone else. Perhaps 100,000 people or less hold all the great jobs. They are all intellectuals. There is a unified group at the top. Everyone gravitates to London...