Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, another normally dry gully (Sulphur Draw) flash-flooded the drought-stricken town of Lamesa. Said a survivor. Bible in hand: "The Lord sent the rain, and I don't hold it against Him." Floods from Sulphur Draw and hundreds of other roiling gullies roared into Devils River, the Pecos and other surging streams, which poured into the Rio Grande. The big, sleepy river, bone-dry in places, e.g., Laredo, a year ago, rose as much as a foot an hour, and trouble roared downstream...
...year ago. Mendès told the National Assembly flatly: "France must limit her objectives, but attain them; establish a policy which is perhaps less ambitious than some would desire, but hold to it. Our aim must not be to give the illusion of grandeur, but to remake a nation whose word will be heard and respected...
...Guatemalan delegates had struggled to make any investigation of the war a Security Council matter-Russia doubtless relishing the potentialities for propaganda and mischief. But the U.S. point of view-that ending the war was a task for the Organization of American States-prevailed. The OAS promptly voted to hold a foreign ministers' meeting in Rio de Janeiro July 7. An investigating mission made ready to fly to Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua...
...guard the capital was bombed and set on fire. Arbenz' emphasis, in his radio talk, on how much the air attacks had hurt, was an eloquent restatement of an old principle: in air war, as in poker, a low hand can win the biggest pot when the opponents hold nothing...
Little Caesar. In East Providence. R.I.. attempting to hold up a hardware store. Joseph Reposa was recognized by the proprietor, had his rusty, unloaded gun snatched from him, found his getaway...