Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bullfight fans hold that the contest between man and bull is not sport but drama. Gringos, who often find themselves cheering the bull, insist that whatever it is, it is loaded in favor of the bullfighter. Last week, as the new season opened in Mexico City, the gringos had reason to believe they might have been right. President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had decided that the drama needed some editing; he decreed 98 changes in the bullfighting code, designed to give the bulls a better break and to take some of the histrionics out of the bullfighters...
...with muscles in the boy's forearm. One of the most crucial, done early this year, was a tendon transfer to give Terry an apposable left thumb. It worked. Last week, as the bandages came off after a minor operation, Terry could appose his thumb well enough to hold his fork in his left hand. British style...
...much to lose as any of the struck papers from a settlement favorable to the strikers. Since the Trib is already hard-pressed by spiraling costs, it could ill afford another pacesetting boost. Thus the Trib hoped to encourage the other publishers-especially the affluent Times-to hold the line against the union, not only by refusing to run more ads itself and thereby capitalize on the strike, but by killing those already scheduled. Next day, the Trib carried its effort a step further by not publishing...
Tondi (trying to hold his audience...
...most Protestants have it. Roman Catholics hold that he was merely a cousin...