Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiter dispensing Four Roses, the place looked much like an official hearing room. At one end was a 12-ft. conference table, with a grimly busy stenographer, and in front of it stood Matusow, seeming right at home. Posing for pictures, he asked photographers if he should hold up his right hand, witness style. The first news man to question Matusow went straight to the point: "How can we be sure that what you tell us now is the truth?" Matusow replied blandly: "I feel that the truth kind of speaks for itself." It had better; little help could...
...evidence supports the official judgment in Washington and Taipeh. This judgment of the Formosa crisis has been reached, very evidently, by calculating what we would do if we were the Chinese Communists ruling in Peking. But it is always well to remember that we are not they. Those who hold this conviction somehow manage to overlook both Red China's warlike preparations and warlike declarations. The forces for an attack are in place. Meanwhile, the. Peking government has been promising its people to take Formosa this year at the top of its voice. The Peking leaders have also been...
...Paris. A short, stocky man in a black topcoat hurried out of the old grey stone National Assembly building on the Quai d'Orsay. Minutes earlier Pierre Mendès-France had been Premier of France, the most popular, brilliant and energetic man to hold the office since the inception of the Fourth Republic. Now, ringing in his ears were the hoarse shouts and curses of his colleagues in the Chamber of Deputies still panting from the bitterest, most vindictive and unseemly overthrow of any Premier in recent French history...
...varsity rifle team came within two points of its all-time record Thursday to defeat Boston College, 1404 to 1305, and retain its hold on first place in the Southern half of the New England Intercollegiate League...
...Siler, whose best heave is 48 feet, eight inches, expects to extend this distance to hold Thompson...