Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Mendès-France. He has argued in speech after speech in the Assembly that only by abandoning some of its commitments can France overcome its immobilisme. "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...
...whacking away at Charles with jarring shots that began to find the range. They hurt no matter where they hit. In the eighth, Rocky was at his brawling best. He bulled Charles against the ropes, hooked his big left paw around the back of Charles's head to hold it in position, and whaled away with a vicious right uppercut to the Adam's apple. Charles never recovered...
Right from the start the Navy crew lived up to Coach Callow's confidence. It jumped to a quick lead, moved past the mile pole stroking a smooth and powerful 30, a long boatlength ahead of Cornell. Pulling hard to hold second place, ahead of the Washington Huskies, Cornell moved up in the last 100 yards, but Navy was home free, winner by a length and a half...
...Texas were upon the Most Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. In fact, they were all but burning a hole through his black coat. For the bishop had decided that the eyes of the world were more important, and last week canceled plans to hold the church's 1955 triennial convention in Houston. The city's racial segregation (though he made no specific reference to it in his announcement) was responsible for the decision, which Sherrill called "the most painful and difficult ... I have ever been called upon to make...
Daphne du Maurier, 46, is one of the slickest pros now producing bestseller belles-lettres. She dips her pen into the inkpot of romance, melodrama or suspense and aims it like a dagger at the heart of the defenseless reader, who is usually quite willing to hold still...