Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doesn't become insane in one day, and Billy's present condition stems from circumstances beyond his control . . . I can remember seeing him in convulsions when he was a tiny child. The spasms were so violent that it took both my parents to hold him while they gave him hot baths to ease the tension. The results of this condition were discovered when electroencephalographic tests were made recently: the area of the brain was damaged which controls the inhibition animal impulses. A child with this handicap would have had difficulty adjusting to a favorable environment...
...raise money for the children of the late Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, the Poets' Theatre will hold a benefit reading on Monday...
Certain lords of the canned comment have demurred to this: they accept the explanation but' hold Truman and his predecessor responsible for the climate of opinion. They have developed a Pied Piper theory of presidential leadership, with a main thesis that a pair of malicious individuals single-handedly bent all of society to their purposes. This is surely fatuous. Roosevelt and Truman may well have been at fault, when viewed with the aid of hindsight, for not restraining the high vintage liberalism of their twenty years in office more efficiently, but no one man can create such a spirit...
...experiments had resulted in Dexion (the ancient Greek word for right). As a framing material for construction, Dexion is stronger for its weight than wood, can be stored in 6% of the space needed for two-by-fours, and when bolted together needs no cross beams or supports to hold large weights. Labor savings in construction run as high as 75%. Sales were soon so brisk that Comino opened a new factory in northwest London and three other shops around the city. By last year Dexion's gross had shot up to more than $2,800,000 annually...
...time is easygoing 1909, but even Danny senses that the going is hard for his folks. Grandfather Tom O'Flaherty is in his 70s and can hold his own only at the local booze parlor. Grandmother Mary is a termagant who keeps "givin' him hell . . . because that's the way you have to treat a man." Aunt Margaret is in love with a man who is not only married but a "black Protestant devil" besides, and pretty Aunt Louise is dying of TB. As for Uncle Al, a shoe salesman who foots most of the bills...