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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toughest tasks Dwight Eisenhower has faced as President of the U.S. is the job of capturing control of the Government. After 70 years of ups & downs, the civil service had spread its patriarchal protection over 95% of all 2,500,000 federal employees. Ike had trouble getting a toe hold on 900 top policymaking jobs in Washington for his own appointees. Last week, however, the Administration won a sizable beachhead in its battle with the burrowed bureaucrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Beachhead | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...because it was held by Taft. Elected to Congress seven times (six at large and once from the 23rd District), Bender has been a good vote-getter throughout Ohio, is particularly strong downstate. Democrat Burke, four-term mayor of Cleveland, who has already announced that he will try to hold the Senate seat, will run strong in his home town. The consensus of Ohio political observers last week: a close race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bell Ringer v. Burke | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...Labor," said one observer, "could never hold out against such an attack. It could be the deciding point of a close election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: H.M. Government Presents | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Psychiatrists hold that bullying and cries of "Pervert!" are an incitement to the deviate to prove himself, possibly in crimes of violence. And, they add, those who protest most loudly against deviations in others are the least sure of their own sexual adjustment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hidden Problem | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...amoral Eve who wants to settle down without settling up; Hollywood's Gig Young persuasively proves that the breakdown of modern society began with Ibsen's A Doll's House, and Franchot Tone-though cut from pure theatrical cardboard-nevertheless acts with sufficient weight to hold the farce in place on the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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