Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British army, rising from private to major in seven years. In 1946, he began working full time for the emerging Jewish state, first as an information officer in London, then as a.delegate to the U.N. In May 1950, he was appointed Ambassador to the U.S., the youngest diplomat to hold such a rank in Washington...
...hours more the Pinta circled over Bermuda to lighten its gasoline load and give the crew time to prepare the 25 passengers with pillows beneath their safety belts and show them how to hold their heads down before the crash. Some of the children began to cry. An old lady became hysterical. Padre Gonzalez Salas prayed harder. One of the passengers asked him for absolution. With permission from Captain Rein-Loring, the priest went through the plane preparing his fellow passengers for death with the act of contrition and prayer...
Billy arrived on Poppy Day, traditional for its student high jinks to raise money for disabled veterans, and it was reliably rumored that five separate groups of undergraduates planned to kidnap and hold him for ransom. But the brisk vigilance of students and plainclothesmen kept him safe for CICCU...
...owner. At the start, he broke and forced a recall. Next time the field got off ragged but right. Prendase moved steadily to the front. By the time the leaders pounded into the stretch it was a three-horse race; Prendase was still on top, going all-out to hold off El Chama and Social Outcast...
...major points in the President's expanded aid program. With increased funds from Congress, the ICA was to meet what Eisenhower called the "critical needs" for more economic development throughout the world. This week, however, the director of the ICA, John B. Hollister, revealed that the Administration plans to hold back as much as 20 percent of this year's economic funds appropriated by Congress, so that the President will have a $100 million emergency reserve fund...