Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public appeal to the House-Senate Conference Committee that was ironing out differences between the Senate bill and an almost equally objectionable farm bill passed by the House a year ago. Said the President in his press conference: "I have never been one to say . . . that you must hold up good things in order to attain perfection . . . I am looking for a good bill for farmers and one that makes sense ... I just am not demanding my own ideas...
...exiling Archbishop Makarios-looks beyond Cyprus itself. Britain wants to be ready to act swiftly in the Middle East. It fears a new anti-British outbreak in Jordan, and is ready to fly in paratroopers to help young King Hussein put it down. For if Britain loses its hold in Jordan, it has jeopardized its control of the vital Iraq oilfields next door...
...Greece would stay a British sphere in return for a British hands-off in the Balkans. With the outbreak of full-scale war between the guerrillas and the Greek army in 1947, Zachariades took to the hills. It was Zachariades' idea to kidnap thousands of peasant children and hold them hostages for the loyalty of their parents. When the U.S.-backed Greek army defeated the Communist partisans in 1949, Zachariades fled to Rumania. At Stalin's bloody-minded behest, he ordered the execution of Partisan General Markos Vafiades. Thereafter he dribbled Communist spies into Greece, whom he denounced...
Some highly important questions will be involved here on which many of us hold strong opinions. But in the large prespective of history, our preoccupation with these issues in the crucial year 1956 may seem even more strange than the forgotten arguments that divided us in the election of 1928, when the nation was balanced unwrittingly on the verge of economic collapse and the parties stood on the brink of a political revolution...
Social sciences are taught at the College European on the Left Bank's Boulevard St. Germain. Also in July, the Ecole du Louvre will hold month long courses on "The Archaeology of the Middle Ages" and "Modern Painting." An "American Summer Course" of liberal arts is available at the Sorbonne, starting July 1. A special course is even offered to those who are interested in "aerial photogrammetry" by the Ecole Nationale des Sciences Geographiques in the month of June. Tutition fees for most courses...