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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sacred? Yes, the right to hold our hands up in defense of God and freedom for all peoples to live without having some one knock in the door, without a barbed wire frontier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SACRED DUTY | 5/29/1953 | See Source »

...tenderly moving music conceals pleasantly depraved themes. "I hold your hand in mine," be croons gently, adding later, "if only you were here." "Be Prepared!" is his rousing exhortation to the Boy Scouts, "to hold your liquor well." Then he goes on to advise his little friends, "Never solicit for your sister. It isn't nice . . . , unless you get a good percentage of the price...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Songs by Tom Lehrer | 5/29/1953 | See Source »

Committee voted, 8-7, to tack Alaskan statehood on to the Hawaii statehood bill and to hold time-consuming hearings on both questions. This move to delay the action on Hawaii was sponsored by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, who is on record for Hawaiian statehood but who wants Democratic Alaska considered at the same time. The man who made Anderson's move successful was Nevada's Republican Senator George W. ("Molly") Malone. who doesn't want statehood for either Alaska or Hawaii. His switch turned a Democratic minority of the Interior committee into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Noncontiguity | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...civilization, a Judeo-Christian heritage with which men of all faiths may agree. Their basic philosophical faith may be generally stated as a belief in 1) the fatherhood of God, 2) the brotherhood of man, 3) the essential dignity of man, and 4) the right of the individual to hold and administer private property, subject to his responsibilities to his fellowmen. Christian Democracy began as a Christian Socialism and gradually moved towards center and right. Originally, its intention was to escape the bleak godlessness of both left and right, while avoiding the charge of church domination, particularly domination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: EUROPE'S CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

Died. Chet Miller, 50, dean of U.S. racing-car drivers; at the Indianapolis Speedway. Good enough to hold the track's one-lap speed record (139.6 m.p.h.), Veteran Miller never won the annual 500-mile speedway classic, decided that this year's attempt would be his last. He climbed into his V-8 Novi Special for a fast practice spin, lost control, crashed into the barrier, became the speedway's 43rd victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 25, 1953 | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

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