Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party caucus is a good way for congressional leaders-when they know they have a majority behind them-to swing a minority into line on legislative issues. But to hold a caucus without a majority is to invite a stinging rebuff; party discipline is shattered, and more often than not the leaders come out with less support than they had before. Last week the Republican leaders of the House called for a party conference to work up opposition to the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (the Eisenhower Administration was strongly on record against anything more than a 7.6% increase...
However, the Crimson is still plagued with a tendency to grow sloppy in its play. Yesterday in a scrimmage, the freshmen were able to hold the obviously superior varsity to a one point lead at the end of five quarters. The unofficial tally stood...
...French have claimed that Diem's government does not adequately represent the sentiment of the people of South Viet Nam. Yet Bao Dai surely does not hold a very high place in popular affections, as one can judge from the open hostility with which large segments of the Viet Namesse people greeted his entrance into the recent conflict. And none of the boisterous contending religious sects has shown any great concern for the welfare of the country as a whole. Obviously it is dangerous to place too much reliance upon a single man, as American foreign policy...
...show also marked the end of Henri's overwhelming influence (although he lived until 1929). As a portraitist, Henri strove to catch "the living instant," and he often said his goal was "to paint the greatest portrait in the world in 30 minutes." His robust bravura can still hold the spectator's eye. But today Henri's surface effects seem thin and superficial, less revolutionary than mannered Manet...
...best thing of its crude kind that Hollywood has offered in 1955. The idea of the picture, trenchantly written by Sydney Boehm and slickly directed by Richard Fleischer, is as simple and as nerve-racking, as a bomb. Three thugs arrive in a small Arizona mining town to hold up the bank. While the robbers prepare their plans, while the bomb ticks away in the mind, the moviegoer stares with itchy horror into the faces and the lives of the innocent bystanders who will be caught in the eventual explosion...