Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irritation Removed. On his swing back through Tokyo, Dulles prodded the Japanese to get them to step up their rearmament for defense. But he also made a striking political concession to Japan, at a time when this sensitive country, whose big industry holds Asia's balance of power, is worried about its economic future and is being sedulously wooed by Russia and Communist China. The return of the Amami Oshima archipelago to Japanese rule, after eight years of U.S. occupation, removes a major source of Japanese irritation with the U.S., and puts some uncomfortable pressure on the Russians...
...main surprise in the Liberals' triumph was the ease with which it was accomplished. In the 1949 election, the party won 190 out of 262 parliamentary seats, a record majority that no Liberal expected to match soon again. While confident that they could hold the 133 seats needed for a majority this year, some Liberal leaders were braced for more or less painful losses, perhaps as many as 60 seats of their 1949 bloc. But the voters decided otherwise. Early on election night, the Liberal total soared to 170 seats and was still climbing. The Progressive Conservatives (Tories...
...that he could use them to move his pelvis. He compares the process to the case of a man walking on stilts, who uses the upper part of the body instead of the leg and lower trunk muscles to get around. With the newly developed muscles, the paraplegic can hold himself erect and move his upper trunk, arms and shoulders. Guttmann found that the best way to keep the muscles strong was to launch a sports program. He invented the Stoke Mandeville swimming stroke: the patient sits upright in the water, paralyzed feet floating in front of him, and rows...
...breathing technique resembles the way in which frogs gulp down air. The patient sucks a small amount into his mouth, then forces it through his voice box and into the lungs by a pushing action of the tongue. While the voice box closes to hold the air in the lungs, the patient gulps again, and the process is repeated until he gets a full breath...
...tailed, mahogany-plywood motorboat called Slo-Mo-Shun IV, slightly faster than her younger sister, Slo-Mo-Shun V, and holder of the world straightaway speed record of 178.497 m.p.h. With Slo-Mo V disabled by a pre-race accident last week, Slo-Mo IV had to hold off five Detroit challengers for speedboating's most prized trophy, the Gold Cup, won last year and in 1950 by the old lady, in 1951 by the young lady...