Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respect and confidence . . . At home the economy seems to be creeping toward G.O.P. normalcy. The Administration is right when it says we are not in a depression. We are just in a rut. We are having a second-best year, and it is the optimists, not the pessimists, who hold out the hope that next year may not be much worse...
...first on the labor unions, of which they quickly gained complete control, "he explained. "Soon it became almost impossible to be elected to public office without the support of the unions . . . A teachers' union was formed, and before long almost every teacher in the country, in order to hold his job, had to teach the Communist doctrines . . . The Communists had political control of Guatemala by the time [former President Juan José] Arévalo's term expired [in 1951]. When their hand-picked candidate, Jacobo Arbenz, took office, they finally dared to come out into the open...
...young Marlon, better known in those days as Bud, life was an unbroken series of contests: Who could eat fastest, hold his breath longest, open his mouth widest, tell the biggest lie, do the least homework? One day he and some other boys invented the best game of all: Who can sink farthest in the quicksand along the river bank without hollering for help? (Luckily, nobody won.) Bud and sister Frances (now Mrs. Richard Loving, a painter, living in Mundelein, Ill.) ran away from home regularly every Sunday afternoon. On Saturdays Bud rummaged devotedly through the neighbors' rubbish, came...
...community, like government professor Robert E. Cushman, a leading authority in the field of civil rights, famed physicist Hans Bethe, and philosopher Max Black. Although many of these men may give the large introductory courses and try to make themselves accessible to students, the average student is likely to hold them too much in awe, especially in his early years, to approach them readily...
...attempts to expand the Drive require time. To increase efficiency we hope to have several parts of the University hold simultaneous campaigns. Organizing the Yard competently and reducing expenditures through donations of advertising space also requires a delay until spring. Also, the Final Report of the 1953-54 Committee strongly advocated a switch to spring collection. David M. Dorsen '56. Edward M. Strasser...