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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what seemed to be the official uniform of a six-star admiral of the Nepalese navy, stood Elsa herself. "We're going to see Greece, and Greece is going to see us," she shouted as 50 cases of champagne were stowed away in the ship's hold. But, despite the wine, Admiral Elsa insisted, the Achilleus cruise was to be "entirely serious in tone. Oh, we will play a little bridge and do a little dancing-and Spyros Skouras has sent us 20 new movies to show. But everybody will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Well-Heeled Achilles | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...earnest effort to cope with the town's overcrowded schools. But by last week Park Forest was hard aboil with scalding controversy of an entirely different sort. The cause, as the suburb's Reporter put it, was that "the fury of a woman scorned can't hold a candle to the heat generated by a parent whose child has been refused admission to kindergarten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hopping Like a Bunny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...American League pennant race showed no signs of slowing down. With homers by Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees kept a precarious hold on first place, took the initial game of a double-header with Chicago, 6-1. But the second-place White Sox bounced back, 3-2, thanks to Third Baseman Bob Kennedy's first inning, three-run homer. The split held the Yankee's lead to half a game. Poor pitching cost the Cleveland Indians a double-header with the seventh-place Senators (8-2, 13-4), dropped them from a first-place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...follows him, still determined to lasso the cad with a wedding ring. Aboard ship she meets another charmer, Mike Eden, who has a bad case of nerves, but for good cause: he is playing Scarlet Pimpernel in Nazi Germany and smuggling out persecuted Jews. Still, Noel has a fatal hold on her, and she finally catches up with him, only to find him living with and off a lady photographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Getting a Bite-Tires hold traction during acceleration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Herding The Beasts A Hot-Rodder's Glossary | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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