Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bulganin, as mayor, traveled widely in Western Europe. Another mayor, Konrad Adenauer of Cologne, asked him how he handled "Moscow's 4,000 city councilors." Bulganin answered in fluent German, as if explaining everything: "We simply hold our meetings in the opera house." Said Adenauer 20 years later: "I had an excellent impression of Herr Bulganin. Meanwhile, he has become Premier and I have become Chancellor. We both have done quite well...
Three cordons of police were linked arm to arm to hold back the crowd of more than 5,000 gathered at Bombay Airport to welcome homecoming Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru back from his good-will tour of Europe and Russia last week. "In the countries I visited," Neutralist Nehru was telling the dignitaries gathered in a nearby hangar, "I was welcomed not for myself, but as a symbol, a symbol of India and peace." At that point the weary policemen's arms gave out, and the welcoming crowd roared across the airstrip, trampling men, women and children in their...
...Delhi, the temperature was 100.7°, and the welcome even warmer. There, warned by Bombay, the police had put up barriers of steel tubing to hold back the crowds, who came 10,000 strong by bus, bicycle, rickshaw and bullock cart to shout "Long live the God of Peace." But the steel was as a willow withe before a flood. As India's President, flanked by Indian officials, proffered his returning Prime Minister a bunch of roses, the fence fell and the crowd surged forward. Somebody yanked the President to safety, but the Minister of Production lost a sandal...
...five years ago. Talbert told how he, Grutzner and other reporters had been told of the Sabre jets' first victory over the MIGs in North Korea, but had been directed by the Fifth Air Force not to release the news. Talbert said that all reporters present agreed to hold the story (Grutzner testified earlier that he, the A.P. and the U.P. agreed...
Suspect Orders. Then Father Williamson intimated that many Annunciationist priests (his estimate: 1,700 to 2,000, a figure that Anglican sources claim is grossly exaggerated) might be forced to secede and join the Roman Catholic Church. Reason: "That we may, by continuing to hold to the faith, represent the true Church of England, and that if we seek reconciliation with the Holy See we may end, historically speaking, the schism which took place under Henry VIII...