Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official host to the visiting Soviet team. By doing this, he hopes the Amateur Athletic Union would finally extend an official invitation to the Russians. Up to now, because San Francisco promoter Frank Walsh directed the tour, the A.A.U. has withheld its approval, causing the State Department to hold back the visas...
...Kelley said after his team's first victory, "We've still got Thompson, Williams, and Cronin to carry the ball. Our quarterbacks, Demehak and Balough, both look very good. If our line starts to block downfield, and if we can get our ends to hold onto the ball, we'll do all right...
...when new laws enabled him to escape being labeled a major offender. An unrepenting Hitlerite, he was soon active in neo-Nazi circles. Arrested by the British in 1953 for "endangering the occupation," he was deprived of the right to make public speeches, write for the press, broadcast or hold public office. But the transfer of sovereignty to the West German government invalidated the case against Naumann. Notified of this, unregenerate Nazi Naumann returned to active politics last week, an example to all Germans of the difference between the smart and the dumb war criminal...
...Fourth Game found Casey Stengel still saving his veteran pitchers while Alston was forced to work his best. They were more than good enough. Carl Erskine lasted only three innings, but Don Bessent and Clem Labine teamed up behind him to hold the Yankees off. Snider, Campanella and Hodges all homered, and Snider was superb in the field. The Yanks got scant consolation from McDougald's wasted first-inning home run. Final score: Dodgers 8, Yankees...
...nursing a bad knee. Mike Zeigler had run afoul of Army discipline and was finished with 'football. Don Holleder, the All-America end who had been shifted to quarterback, still had to learn how to fire his lefthanded passes soft enough for the average man to hold them. For Coach Blaik. beating Furman 81-0 in the opening game was already a half-forgotten memory...