Word: holdes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...towheaded Ozark farm boy, learned to kill a rattlesnake and throw a mule by the time he was ten. He put in his turn milking and plowing, bought his first shotgun when he was 13, played football and refused to play basketball ("for sissies"), grew strong enough to hold a 98-lb. anvil over his head, but never once stopped dreaming of the day he would become a soldier. He sent away for cereal buttons, collected old CCC caps, medals and sheriff badges, and wore them all, strutting around the house...
...When Presidential Secretary Steve Early kneed a New York Negro policeman in the groin a week before the 1940 elections, Ickes was set to work re-wooing the Negro vote. Harry Hopkins, said Ickes, called and "wanted me to get hold of Marian Anderson to have her attend a meeting and sing or issue a statement." Marian sang...
Strydom has two lines of action. He wants to break with the British Commonwealth and make South Africa a republic in which Afrikaners will hold the sovereign power and Afrikaans will be the only official language. In this republic, he wants complete segregation of the races and the disenfranchisement of all non-whites (Negroes, Indians and mixed bloods), who make up five-sixths of the population. His ideas are summed up in the slogan he had carried through the Transvaal: Die witman moet baas bly (The white man must remain boss...
Among this group are those who hold their heads and moan about problems, problems; but there are many who sincerely feel that expansion would be useless. These have already been answered by President Pusey...
...E.A.R.C. also voted to hold the 150-pound regatta on the Charles River, on May 14. Last year the lightweights raced on Lake Carnegie...