Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never rolled; it was swamped under a torrent of opposition votes. Sir John lost two-thirds of his Cabinet, as his party held on to only eight seats out of 42 at stake. The coalition won 28, the Communists five. At the second-day election, Sir John failed to hold a single seat, while the coalition picked...
...number comes during which the daring artist, stressing each syllable, gives out some high chest notes with a resonant fullness, an expression of heart-rending grief, and a beauty of tone that so far nothing had led one to expect. A petrified silence reigns in the house, people hold their breath, amazement and admiration are. blended in a mood akin to fear. There is, in fact, reason for fear until that extraordinary phrase comes to an end. . . -Hector Berlioz, Evenings with the Orchestra...
...meter grind in almost identical times-never under 1:13, never over 1:13.9. He touched the finish line in 18:05.9, an eye-bugging 13.1 seconds under the world mark (TIME, April 9) held since 1949 by Japan's Hironoshin Furuhashi, became the first American ever to hold that long-distance record...
...draw the line?" There is always the chance that "spontaneous remission," a rare inexplicable halt to tumor growth, may restore the cancer patient to health. Moreover, says Cameron, the possibility always exists of a timely cure for the patient's case of cancer. "The humane course is to hold on to such a hope, slender as it is, and help the patient to live on ... The difference between euthanasia and letting the patient die by omitting life-sustaining treatment is only a moral quibble...
...poetry, 2) its problem could have been solved at any time merely by the heroine's walking out on her domineering father, 3) it had been seen on CBS-TV (with Geraldine Fitzgerald and Sir Cedric Hardwicke) as recently as last summer. All these difficulties were overcome, to hold absorbed some 28 million viewers-more people than Katharine Cornell has played to in her long theatrical career...