Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was all there was to the trial. The verdict: guilty. Sentence: death by strangulation, to be carried out on the spot. A length of rattan fiber was wrapped around Piao's neck; two comrades seized hold of each end of it and pulled hard. After a while, Piao was dead...
PROXY RETURNS to Wall Street brokers to date hint at a majority vote for Robert R. Young in his battle to win control of the New York Central. The brokers, who hold an estimated 40% (more than 2,578,000 shares) of all Central stock for individual owners, report that the proxies counted so far are running well over 50% in favor of Young and against the Central management...
...some mental disorders by the re-education of emotions. Through such projects, the Institute hopes to collect a backlog of information that will tell man as much about himself as the physical sciences tell him about nature. "There is nothing more important," says Professor May, "than the ties that hold people together and the prejudices that hold them apart. There are always squeaky wheels. Some one has got to oil them...
...took the explorers a week to advance a mile overland. But finally, with muddy, lifeless faces, they emerged to the "civilization [that] awaited us, with its haste and its rapacity, but also with its power and its glory." Through all the mishaps of his trip, Gheerbrant managed to hold onto his notes. He is a poet and has transformed them into a fascinating and noble book...
...individual "must take the greatest blame"--or praise--for the choice of a production. Since in actual fact the play was amply discussed and chosen in full club meeting and in conjunction with the Harvard Theatre Committee, it is no more fair to do this than for me to hold Mr. Langguth fully responsible for the editorial views of the CRIMSON. Matters of policy must be ascribed to the organizations as a whole in both cases...