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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needs to be a jack-of-all-trades, attending to . . . the dishes, watering, bathing the kids and dog; weeding, washing the car, answering the phone and door. Then there's the errand running: upstairs for the hammer, down the basement to hunt for the missing pipe wrench. "Hold this board at just this angle at just this moment." "Please get me some more putty." There is sanding. Especially the corners and awkward spots which won't respond to power equipment held in other hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Postponing this painful judgment, the Senators have decided to hold hearings to elicit the facts. The trial ritual will be mocked again-as it was in the Army-McCarthy hearings. Witnesses will be heard, and, the committee decided last week, Joe will have the right to cross-examine them. This week Joe demanded that one of his accusers, Senator Ralph Flanders, return from a vacation in Europe and be put under oath as a "complaining witness." Actually, Flanders is no more a "witness" than any other American who can read or look at television. Flanders is a man who says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Interminable Trial | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...Vancouver's big race, Australian Landy broke fast and was out in front by the end of the first quarter. He increased his pace, for only by getting a good lead could he hope to hold off Briton Bannister's famed finishing kick. But longjawed Roger Bannister never let him get out of reach. He dogged the Australian's strides closely and carefully, was hanging on easily when Landy passed the metric-mile post (1,500 meters) at a better-than-world's-record clip (3:41.9). There Bannister turned on his fabulous reserve power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mile of the Century | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...board chairmen or top executives of six major U.S. steel companies, U.S. and Canadian banks, insurance and trust companies and mining firms. The visitors assembled on Seven Islands' rain-drenched waterfront. A button was pushed, and rumbling machinery dumped carloads of red rock into a freighter's hold. When the hold was full, the ship sailed for Philadelphia to deliver to U.S. steel mills the first iron ore from Canada's remote Ungava iron fields, as rich as and perhaps vaster than the once great Mesabi Range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ore by '54 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...wish to have . . . it regarded under false premises. I bought the stock because I thought it was the best buy on the market. I bought it in spite of your arguments last year." Said Gilbert: "I don't care why you bought it, just so you continue to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Old Soldiers Sometimes Buy | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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