Word: holdes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Government, as governments should, expressed the society. In the Administration, there is hardly a man with a political position independent of Eisenhower's. Yet neither the fact of his illness nor the prospect of his retirement jolted the Administration. The web of committees and the pressure of agenda hold it tight. Richard Nixon, who is no second Eisenhower, quite adequately performs the coordinating functions...
...point that Dr. White, a former president of the American Heart Association, has been making for years. The point: heart-attack victims need not spend the rest of their lives as invalids. But when applied to the President of the U.S., Dr. White's answer seemed to hold out the probability that Ike would receive medical advice that he could run again. To correct this impression, Dr. White appeared on a TV show with Dave Garroway. "Asked if he thought it would be possible for the President to serve a second term, he replied: "Many things are possible that...
...Soviet army, is well equipped to supply most of the arms. But to make effective use of Czech weapons, the Egyptian army will be obliged to set up a maintenance supply line running back to Prague, and, therefore, to Moscow. Thus Russia can secure a linn and influential hold on an area hitherto dominated by the West...
...dispatched to little Cyprus alarmed some Greeks and aroused many to anger. The official Radio Athens, reflecting the continuing Greek irritation over the U.S. vote against U.N. debate of the Cyprus matter, reacted with an anti-American twist: "For every Cypriot [Harding] kills or imprisons, free Greece will hold neither Eden nor Harding responsible, but Mr. Dulles, unless he repents at the last minute and stays the hand of Harding." Greek Foreign Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos charged that Britain had "declared war on the people of Cyprus...
...coal mines, insurance companies to newspaper chains. Son of rich parents who had lost their money, he says he made his first killing before he was 19 by cornering the Bombay gold bullion market. By 1937 he had made and lost three fortunes in speculations and won a hold on a cement factory, the foundation of an industrial empire that burgeoned mightily during the war. "During the war years, I earned money through sinful ways," he confessed later...