Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forgotten us," he said, ". . . nor will we forget his son." Then Louis presented a bronze plaque from the city council of Richmond that summed up the years he had been away. It read: "To the people of Bisaccia, Italy, in recognition of the high esteem in which we hold your native son . . . Louis Salzarulo...
...humiliation reminded Petrillo of another time when art bowed to business. "There was Menuhin," he said. "He used to talk about his art and his God and his fiddle. Then one day when he was supposed to play in Philly, we told the musicians he didn't hold a union card and they walked out. So now, him and his God and his fiddle, they're in the San Francisco local...
...over U.N. positions on the Chorwon Valley floor. Should the Chinese capture Harry, the U.N. would have to move its main line of resistance back as much as two miles. The day after the Chinese struck at the hill, the order came down from Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor: "Hold Harry at all cost...
...statistic: of 2,700,000 youths from 21 to 25 voting for the first time, 1,200,000 voted for the totalitarian left, less than a million for the democratic center. Palmiro Togliatti's Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists had been expected only to hold their own. In the last days of the campaign, a U.S. Senate committee hearing 4,000 miles away gave the leftists effective ammunition for crumbling one of the pillars of De Gasperi's campaign-his ability to keep U.S. aid flowing to Italy. Communist newspapers and orators recited quotes...
...town, as he did last week in Münster, the crowd stands in darkness, and a single light shines down upon Leppich's head. "I was in Bremerhaven recently," he thunders, "where American troops disembarked on to German soil. Do you know what we Germans hold out to these boys as a calling card? Whores...