Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police arrived a few seconds after the fighting had stopped, but did not hold any of the combatants. Most seriously injured was one student whose nose was broken. Others suffered only superficial cuts and bruises...
...vote. He was persuaded to let out the political stops by G.O.P. bigwigs, who were in and out of Denver all week with doleful reports of Republican chances. Their pessimism was backed by a Gallup poll, which indicated that, outside the South, Republican congressional candidates hold only a 51% to 49% lead-and a 55% G.O.P. vote outside the South is considered necessary for control of Congress. The day of his speech Ike spent long hours going over campaign strategy with top Republicans, who had been summoned to Denver...
...want to hear this, do you?" At best, the audience seemed indifferent, so Bender scrapped his script, began pacing around, pounding on the rostrum, on the walls and on a nearby piano. He talked extemporaneously, mostly about singing. Said Cleveland-born Bender: "We don't hold meetings in Cleveland without singing and praying and shouting." But he added: "I sing horribly." Under Bender's exhortations ("What's the matter with this audience? This isn't a funeral parlor."), the spectators began to warm up. Bender eyed them wistfully. Said he: "If my throat was in good...
...Eliot line managed to hold the defending champions fairly well, mostly on the fine play of guard Walt Cabot and tackle Ted Marr...
...Friend (book, music & lyrics by Sandy Wilson) may very well prove the surprise hit on Broadway that it was in London. A gay, witty spoof of musicomedy during the '20s, it manages to hold up all evening by lacing its burlesque 'with nostalgia. It also avoids dangerous pitfalls by sticking to the musicals of the '20s and not going after the mores...