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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the squad will hold a brief half-hour practice while the Elis will take the afternoon off from drilling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Squad Holds Last Regular Practice | 11/19/1954 | See Source »

...fresh air. I went back in, and spied Debbie cavorting on the stage with some hula girls. From time to time she would draw her skirt up to a chalk mark four inches above her knee, cry "Mercy!" as the flashbulbs popped, and hurriedly drop it. She let me hold her silver fox wrap, and a lady from Universal-International, sensing my importance, sidled over and told me Debbie had just flown East for a few days to see Eddie Fisher. She winked and a slab of pancake makeup crashed to the floor. Waiting until my ball pen was working...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Some Enchanted Tea Time | 11/17/1954 | See Source »

...certainly does find it. For example, in the song Heather on the Hill, there is a line, "And all the clouds are holding still." Darned if they aren't, too. Because instead of photographing real clouds, the producer had some sets painted up so the clouds would be sure to hold still. For this reason also the hills look just like real hills, but bigger, and the lake is always the same color...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: Brigadoon | 11/16/1954 | See Source »

...hail of fire enveloped me. A Mustang had caught me napping. A sharp rap hit my right knee. The instrument panel . . . was shattered. The right engine was also hit. Its metal covering worked loose . . . and was partly carried away. Now the left engine was hit too. I could hardly hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memories of the Luftwaffe | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

Back in the tuxedo and a quieter mood, Liberace announced, "I just can't hold back the good news any longer. Last year we had the biggest crowd we'd ever had at Madison Square garden in New York. Well, tonight we passed it." Cheers and yelps. "Thank you ladies and gentlemen, thank you. You don't know how much your encouragement means...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: Liberace and Old Lace | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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