Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deportation of Archbishop Makarios and other Cypriot leaders by the British reminds one of Communist techniques in satellite countries. The extremes to which the British can go to hold on to the name of Empire is nauseating. In some cases, where the native people are really unable to govern themselves, colonialism could be excused for a time. But the Greeks can boast of the first and longest civilization in Europe...
...cross Swing lest the commissioner interfere with Hays's efforts to get citizenship for his adopted two-year-old German daughter. Cried Hays: "I will guarantee that if he did try that, when I got him face to face he would not be physically able to hold the job from then on." Sieminski replied that he had served in the Army under Swing, who was "no cream puff," and if you "approach him with a chip on your shoulder, he will knock your block off." Then he asked if Hays cared to "step outside." Other Congressmen intervened and brought...
...Democratic primary stimulated that hope, especially when the much smaller Republican primary vote is considered. 2) The Democratic Party may be headed for a Southern insurrection; and if this happens the claim that a Southerner, however unpopular in his section, has a better chance than another to hold down the loss of Southern votes may determine the choice of the convention...
...hatred for Israel. Its Arab Legion was the Middle East's finest force, whose allegiance could sharply tilt the whole area's precarious balance. Egypt wooed it and played venomously on the bitterness of its refugees. The British, swallowing their pride, strove to maintain their slipping hold on this onetime docile ward...
...girl to meet boy. And the minute Dan Dailey comes scuffing onscreen with an I'11-always-be-a-boy-at-heart sort of grin that richly expresses the sham in the shamrock, Actress Charisse has plenty to be aloof from. He grabs her hand in a casino, holds it for good luck -and wins three times in a row. This, of course, is the start of a love affair as well as a bank account. However, the grimly spontaneous kissing sometimes makes way for some fairly fresh kidding (when the lovers hold hands, a thousand hens...