Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strikes me "that our return to political sanity, as evidenced at the polls last November, might just possibly hold some promise of a return to economic sanity and automobiles that are functional to a degree, with the gingerbread and built-in mortgages left...
Rhee dispatched his defense minister on a tour of front-line ROK commanders to test their loyalty. In the cities, hundreds of posters were slapped up on walls of bombed-out buildings (sample slogans, usually in English: "Give us unification or give us death." "Young men, hold on to your arms and advance north...
...robbing them of their money. The operation was neatly done-in three stages. First, Radio Prague boomed: "All state loans after 1945 and securities issued after 1945 are declared worthless." This meant that workers forced to put their savings into the Czech version of "E" bonds now hold worthless paper, a total of about...
After that, no office could hold him. For the rest of his life, with the pure, cold, scientific passion of a lepidopterist, he was true to butterflies. He even found a girl who was willing to spend her evenings in his "Bug Room," setting specimens and cataloguing his collection. His subsequent marriage became an insect-ridden partnership. Between them, Newman and his wife built their hobby of butterfly-farming into a paying business...
...sooner had AEC brought out its proposals than Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy announced that it would hold hearings on the plan within the next month. Even if Congress changes the act, private industry may well move slowly. Said Gordon Dean: "A nuclear plant built on the basis of today's technology could not compete with conventional power." Yet . . . there is hope and "considerable optimism that economic nuclear power can be attained within a few years...