Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running in the maple trees, town-meeting time comes to New England. Gone are the uncomplicated days when every municipal decision, big or little, was threshed out at weekly meetings; but most towns of less than 5,000 population (and some larger towns, too) still hold yearly or twice-yearly meetings at which the citizens elect local officials, vote appropriations and taxes, and turn a watchful eye-and often a sharp tongue-on the town administration's performance. Some meetings held this month...
...obedient that even the suspicious men of the Kremlin are said to have no worries about his loyalty. From Prague came President Klement Gottwald, who neatly disposed of Moscow-groomed Rudolf Slansky before Slansky could dispose of him. From Warsaw came Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, the Russian whom all Reds hold out to be a Pole to excuse his running the Polish Defense Ministry and, through that, Poland itself; also from Warsaw came President Boleslaw Bierut, who served as a Red quisling during the Communist-Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. From Albania came a mere vice minister-apparently Dictator Enver...
...Sino-Soviet border stretches for some 5,000 miles along the northern and western edges of China. In partnership, it needs no policing. If he tried to break with Russia, fight in Korea, hold on to Manchuria, and hold off a revived Nationalist China, Mao would in effect be turning his borders with Russia into a suicidal second front...
...only standards for membership, since the group should be more concerned with training itself than impressing the public. There should be some graduate students, to boost the level of debate, but not so many as would shadow undergraduate efforts. Although a good share of the members will hold membership cards in existing political clubs, none of the congress's parties should attach itself to them. For that might scare off the very silent partners on the college political scene the congress is supposed to attract. Selecting initial membership from the Houses, and Union distinctly non-political bodies, could avoid this...
Back and stomach now: push ups, sit ups, leg lifts. Schmitt moved among his boys, counting in monotone . . . "lift, spread, together, down; lift, spread, together, down . . . one, two, three, four . . . up, down, up, down, up . . . hold it now, hold it . . . All right, up running in place for 20 counts...