Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undertook his first political expedition since the November election. Occasion: the New York Republican state committee's $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner in Manhattan. With the President of the U.S. as the star attraction, the committee got more $100 customers (3,900) than any hotel ballroom could hold, so it hired two hotel ballrooms, one at the Astor and one at the Waldorf-Astoria. Ike agreed to give his speech twice-"pitch a doubleheader...
Down the Mississippi. Russ billed them as the "Aquatots," and was as proud as the owner of a top dog act. Bubba, he boasted, could hold his breath four minutes. The lad trotted 15 minutes on a treadmill, set to duplicate an 8½% grade, to prove that his oxygen intake per pound of weight was more than that of any recorded human other than Runner Gil Dodds. Kathy caused Russ some embarrassment-sometimes she cried in public. In 1949, two Miami women complained to the police that he treated the little girl cruelly; while his car was stopped...
...December some sixty students, after being checked off against a guest list at the door, heard Howard Fast speak in the off-campus Unitarian church. The meeting was again sponsored by the Young Progressives. The YP's discarded their original plan to hold the meeting on campus when the Lecture Committee did not receive the Progressive's petition in time...
...lateness of the petition was partly caused by Erich A. Walter, Dean of Students, who normally receives and forwards all such petition immediately to the Committee. But in the YP case, Walter announced he would hold the petition until the Progressives "explained" what action they had taken to carry out the "recommendations" made in an investigation of the organization last year...
Leighton added that students are not the only offenders. The rules will hold also for University employees and faculty members who are often just as much at fault as undergraduates...