Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including Yemenite welders who man the new $5,000,000 pipe factory at Yuval Gad, carefully tucking their side curls behind their ears before putting on their helmets. In the new immigration towns such as Acre and Jaffa, authorities mix the newcomers to speed integration. One apartment house may hold families from as many countries as there are apartments. Some Europeans complain of being put next door to "blacks," and Israel with all its other perplexities now must worry about the color problem...
...sounded simple, and when the season started it seemed to work. Too inexperienced to play as well as Watson wanted, the gangers nevertheless took a firm hold on second place, behind the Montreal Canadiens, and served notice that this year, for a change, they expect to make the Stanley Cup playoffs...
Hong Kong relies on Red China for much of its food supply. Communists hold strong positions in Hong Kong unions of shipyard, transport, electrical, gas and water-system workers, and there are indications, never said aloud, that the Reds also have some strength in the police. They are busy within the school system...
...from killing the romance, this edict merely makes Amrita and Hari hold hands tighter in the corridors of the radio station. What finally loosens the young lovers' grip, and how, takes up the rest of this first novel. It also gives 28-year-old Novelist R. Prawer Jhabvala, Polish wife of a Hindu architect and a resident of India for the past five years, her chance to fashion a deft comedy of manners and values. Allowing for an Indian sea change, her moral is essentially Herman Wouk's-that one's cultural heritage is not a vise...
HANOVER, N.H., January 10--"It's the first quarter I worry about most," varsity basketball coach Floyd Wilson said as he watched his team practice Monday afternoon. "We seem to get off to bad starts most of the time. If we can hold our own for the first few minutes, we'll do all right against any team we play this year...