Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Democrats pin their hopes for a presidential victory in November on a premise and a prayer. The premise: labor, hard core of party strength for two decades, will hold firm. The prayer: enough farmers, upset over falling income, will switch to the Democratic candidate to ensure him the White House...
What to do about the paradox? The solution, for the nations of Western Europe: European union, "one of the greatest dreams of Western man . . . Without such unification . . . Europe could go on in dreary repetition, possibly to the ultimate destruction of all the values these people themselves hold most dear." Moreover the whole "community of freedom" would be more independent, prosperous and secure with the fostering of mutual trade, the advancement of "legitimate political and economic aspirations," a mutual understanding of cultural traditions, and a promise of assistance to weaker nations by the stronger...
Their most effective argument on Cyprus is pragmatic: by its hold "at whatever cost" policy, the Tories deepen the hostility of people who had once been their friends, antagonize world opinion-and are not succeeding in their aim of breaking the revolt...
...Kentucky Derby Winner Needles was closing fast down the short stretch of Maryland's Pimlico race track, but Calumet Farm's Fabius had enough left to hold off the favorite. When the furlongs faded out, Fabius was winner of the $132,800 Preakness by a length and three-quarters...
...Very Rev. James A. Pike, dean of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, onetime Roman Catholic (and editor of Modern Canterbury Pilgrims): "We are Catholic in that we hold entire 'the Faith once for all delivered to the Saints' in unbroken continuity, in faith and in order, with the early Church . . . In the case of almost every significant difference between us [and Roman Catholics], in faith or in practice, we are teaching it or doing it the earlier way . . . We are 'oldfashioned' Catholics...