Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elaborate acts of ritual purity with which the new government is ushering itself into office are not encouraging. One may hope that they are only a temporary affliction of a party recently unused to power, and unsure of how to gain and hold the confidence of the people. If they are permanent, the new government will have great difficulty in adjusting to and meeting the enormously complicated problems facing it and the world, and its "odor of sanctity" will soon begin to stink...
South Korean peasants, fearful of Communist guerrillas lurking in the hills, often go to market by sea. Last week 300 or 400 peasants, bound for hungry Pusan, squeezed aboard the 146-ton steamer Chang Kyong Ho (Prosperous Joy) cramming its hold with 400 sacks of rice. Off the Korean coast, the overladen Prosperous Joy encountered mountainous seas; a crashing wall of water cascaded into the hold, and the ancient vessel sank. Seven passengers, including the captain, swam to safety; the rest (perhaps 350) went to the bottom with the ship...
...twins, majoring in commerce and 'finance, hold up the scholarship end well enough. Their current grades: three As and a B apiece. They have been upholding their athletic reputations even better since the first day they walked into the gym. Their biggest thrill: a charity game last year when they handed the famed professional Harlem Globetrotters their first defeat in 77 games, with Johnny scoring 43 points...
When lanky Althea Gibson, Negro women's tennis champion, cracked the tennis color line in 1950, she soon proved that she could hold her own with the nation's best women players. Althea, then 22, reached the finals of her first National Indoor championship before losing to Nancy Chaffee. Fast improving with the chance to play against topflight competition, Althea went on to win the Good Neighbor Tournament (in Florida) and an international invitation tournament (in Germany). Last week, already enjoying a No. 9 national ranking, Althea became the first of her race to win another honor...
...this room-and I mean it. KEEP OUT-H.L." The initials stood for Harold Lloyd, filmdom's famed funnyman, but this time Funnyman Lloyd was not joking-at least not out loud. At 58, he has turned serious part-time artist, and he was about to hold his first one-man show. No one could blame him for being protective about the 40-odd paintings cached away in one of the bathrooms of his 22-room Beverly Hills mansion...