Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time staff of 54 public-relations experts to see that the press got its share of the 6½ tons of speeches, reports and papers distributed to the delegates. Besides briefing sessions and press conferences, each afternoon Charles Taft, brother of the late Senator and only layman ever to hold the Federal Council of Churches presidency, held a conference in which he invited news worthy delegates to appear...
...Pescadores are a group of rocky, storm-swept, almost treeless islands lying in Formosa Strait, about 30 miles west of the Formosa coast. China got them back from Japan (along with Formosa) after World War II; the Nationalists hold them now. Of the 64 islands in the Pescadores, only 21 are inhabited; the total area is only about 50 square miles...
...Burma's elected M.P.s and their supporters came out in armed revolt against Prime Minister U Nu. Trade, commerce and government revenues slumped; the civil service fell away, demoralized. In police HQ, Pegu Province, a weary superintendent checked his dossier: "Of 21 stations in my district, I hold only six. The other 15 are held by five kinds of insurgents." In faraway London, Winston Churchill, then in opposition, rumbled...
...Chicago's Washington Park, Joseph Gavegnano's rangy bay colt Errard King raced to a three-length lead in the final furlong of the $115,250 American Derby, finished strong to hold off the fast closing favorite, High...
Tombstone and Last Chance Gulch were sinful frontier towns, but Virginia City had nothing to be ashamed of-she could hold up her head with the worst. She had been christened with a bottle of whisky, and her intemperate citizens used to ventilate each other with six-shooters until the drafts became unbearable. At Virginia City, on Nevada's silver-veined Comstock Lode, local mishaps and bonanzas were recorded by the Territorial Enterprise, as freewheeling and free-shooting a weekly as the U.S. has known...