Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back at Hanoi, French GHQ optimistically noted that Giap's fourth counterattack showed "definite lack of conviction," and the tired, outnumbered French garrison is still given a 50-50 chance to hold Dienbienphu...
...valedictorian, Ivy Orator, Phi Beta Kappa, and an active member of the Student Christian Association. But for all sober purpose about him, Pit Van Dusen, when he graduated in 1919, still did not know what he wanted to do. The law, of course, beckoned, "but something made me hold back from it." He toyed with the idea of being a social worker, "although it was, and is, primarily a woman's field." His approach to the ministry was characteristic: "Most social problems are ultimately problems of character," he said to himself. "What institution gives its whole time to these...
...Have & to Vote. The proxy statements showed that the Central management has been loading up on the railroad's stock. The Central's directors now hold not 13,750 but 106,622 shares (out of 6,447,410 outstanding), chiefly because Director Harold S. Vanderbilt has increased his holdings from 10,000 shares to 60,000. The Young slate claimed ownership of 1,089,880 shares, or about 17%. But the big end of the Young group's holdings is the 800,000 shares listed for Texas Oilmen Clint W. Murchison and Sid W. Richardson, which...
...were sold for $821,045. Banks that felt overloaded with mortgages and private holders who wanted to thaw out assets were glad to sell at discounts (but did better than by private sale). The auction went so well that Lawyers Mortgage plans a second sale early next month, may hold as many as two sales a month thereafter. As commission, the company takes 1% to 2% of the selling price, depending on the size of mortgage...
Hanging On. On March 8, 1945, Hitler summoned Kesselring and told him he was Von Rundstedt's successor as commander in chief in the West. It is a sign of Hitler's mesmeric hold on his field marshal that with the German front crumbling everywhere, Kesselring can still describe as "lucid" Hitler's analysis of the situation, the gist of which was that the Russians could be crushed, after which the combined German armies would sweep the Americans, British and French from the Continent. Kesselring was determined to "hang on" in the West until the "decision...