Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1952, in state elections, the Communists have stepped up their percentage of the popular vote from 8.5% to 13.5%; in Madras they have grown from 5.4% to 22% and in the Punjab from 7% to 16.7%. India's Communists, with only 60,000 card-carrying members, hold 26 seats in the New Delhi Parliament, have gained effective control of 800,000 trade unionists; they can paralyze India's biggest city, Calcutta, at will. In impoverished India the Communists also have excellent future prospects: the nation's urban unemployment is increasing by 500,000 a year...
Australia is a large island-continent with a small population of 8,750,000, all of whom seem to become rabid tennis fans as soon as they can hold a racket. Last week Australia's tennis bugs were having nightmares. Reason: their star player and main hope for keeping the Davis Cup for the fifth straight year, blond, bullet-serving Lew Hoad, was playing slipshod and lazy tennis. Clearly, it was a national crisis which involved everybody from Lew Hoad's mother to Prime Minister Robert Menzies...
Concentration on Doing. The council decided: 1) to hold meetings every three years instead of two; 2) to urge members to make more use of the council's new aids to laymen faced with "difficult ethical problems"; 3) to encourage churches "to venture more courageously into racial and cultural inclusion"; 4) to "repudiate completely all forms of racial discrimination...
...some of them used belts to whip them. A former inmate told Addington: "They'd strip a boy to the waist and tell him to grab anything nearby while they whipped him loud with leather straps. We were told to watch, but we wouldn't. We would hold up our hands and cover our eyes...
...their nerves. In the end, blackmailed by the villain, who has intercepted a love letter, Scobie is driven to crime in order to protect his wife from the knowledge that he loves another. And haunting him every moment is the sense that two women now, not just one, hold him to blame, as Scobie blames himself, for their unhappiness. A crime against Heaven, added to his crimes against men, seals Scobie's fate. He takes Communion, while in mortal sin, in order to hide that mortal sin from his wife. With the despair of the damned, he determines...