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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that another general, William Tecumseh Sherman, used in 1884, he said: "I have decided that if the Republican Party chooses to renominate me I shall accept the nomination. Thereafter, if the people of this country should elect me I shall continue to serve them in the office I now hold. I have concluded that I should permit the American people to have the opportunity to register their decision in this matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: If the People Choose | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...small Jordanian plane rolled to a stop on the tarmac of Nicosia airfield on Britain's island of Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, 58, for more than a quarter of a century one of the most potent and famous figures of British imperial power in the Middle East. Last week, suddenly and savagely, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan sacked and shipped off the desert proconsul who had made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Passing of the Proconsul | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Council President Edward M. Abramson '57, in announcing the student committee, said it would probably hold hearings next week to discern student as well as faculty opinion on the question. Richard B. Merlo '57 will head the group to be known as the Biochemical Sciences Evaluation Committee...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Council Appoints Group To Investigate Biochem | 3/9/1956 | See Source »

...Joint Committee on Highways and Motor Vehicles will hold hearings this morning on two bills which would permit all Massachusetts cities to fine jaywalkers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Debates Fining Jaywalkers | 3/6/1956 | See Source »

Inspired Import. In Vienna people arrive fashionably late at the theater, and operettas hold off their big numbers for the end. What worried Prawy was Kate's big ballet scene, which opens the show. This scene alone, he felt, might mean success or failure. As the scene ended on opening night, there was dead silence. Prawy, an old hand at the claque game, clapped once-and started five minutes of thunderous applause. After that, Kate was in. The musicians swung as lightly as if they had not been raised in three-quarter time; the American principals sang in pleasingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Do Kiss Me, Kate | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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