Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot give you," he had told West Germany's Konrad Adenauer. "We cannot give you unification, and we cannot do anything to help NATO." The Russians were vividly aware that, under any unification terms the West would accept, they would lose the part of Germany they now hold. "How could we explain to our people the presence of a defeated Communist government-in-exile in Moscow?" asked Khrushchev of his visitor...
...hike in the tax on dividends paid out by private companies. This was Butler's sop to the trade unions, which had promised to hold back on wage demands if dividends were restrained...
Devaluation automatically raised the cost of imports; that was where Lonardi's proposed austerity came in. To smooth the transition and hold down inflation, the government for the time being planned to tax the more profitable exports, e.g., beef, and use the tax to subsidize the more vital imports, e.g., penicillin...
...hunter will contend that deer, being mostly nocturnal animals, should be stalked at dawn or dusk; another will hold firmly that they should be hunted in daylight. An experienced moose hunter will argue that a single shot from a comparatively light 30-30 rifle is enough to fell a moose; a second will answer that only a powerful .35 Remington Express with a 200-grain bullet is equal to the task. Is a bear's eyesight bad? Should elk be hunted on horseback? Is a Rocky Mountain goat harder to kill than a grizzly? Fresh experiences refuel...
...midnight room permission on all Saturdays, while the CRIMSON pointed out that "anything that can be done in the rooms between 8 and 12 can be done before 8." Tension increased steadily as the crucial October meeting of the Committee on Houses approached, and a pre-battle atmosphere took hold of the College. When Winthrop Master Ronald M. Ferry, was asked before hand for his views on the issue, he played it cagey: "General MacArthur made the mistake of opening his mouth this summer, and I can assure you I don't intend to do the same...