Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...association's code would grant the witness the right of counsel, cross-examination of his accusers, and subpoena power for securing witnesses in his behalf. To prevent unfair publicity, the code would force committees to hold back charges until the witness has a chance to answer them, and allow those accused to read explanatory statements into the records. A final check on committee irresponsibility is the code's insistence that each group state the scope of its investigation and then stay within these set limits...
...many aspects of anthropological research and scholarship. The activities of the University's Department of Anthropology, of course, centre about the Museum--it is an invaluable aid both to teaching and to student research. In fact, most of the Department's faculty members perform a dual function--they hold appointments as curators of the various departments of the Museum as well as professorships of anthropology. The Museum itself, at present, has three endowed professorial chairs...
Secure with American military aid, dictator France is renewing Spanish agitation for control of Gibraltar by planned riots and diplomatic insults. Mindful of American eagerness to hold airfields on the Iberian peninsula, France has embarrassed the British by acting when the U.S. wants to please him. The United states is reluctant to take sides in the dispute, a policy which jeopardized the British position...
...hear her grunt an Italian monosyllable -"Eh!"-is better than a week in Bologna. And when she laughs, she seems to laugh out of every pore at once, as if it were just a more enjoyable way of sweating. In fact, Magnani is almost too strong for Renoir to hold. At every move she takes the stage from his main theme, a Pirandellian play on appearance and reality, theater and life; and it is just as well for the picture that she does...
...terrible thing, because most people are "dead" in life and make the world "a cemetery above the ground." Another is that death has no patience with people who strike attitudes and make sentimental gestures. A third-the most important-is that it is man's duty to hold his head high and to struggle all his life "to be stronger, or more handsome, or more seductive than death...