Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nori. The ROKs might well have seized Big Nori's crest, but they could have put only a few men in the limited space on top, while the Chinese could have counterattacked with wave on wave. As a U.S. observer explained: "You can use your whole hand to hold the whisky bottle, but only a few fingers to pull out the cork." So the week ended as it began-with the ROKs on Little Nori, the enemy on Big Nori...
...always want to be done with war and go home, but there is a special quality in our soldiers: disgust with the war they are waging now. It is the quality born of their knowledge that they are not expected to win. They are expected only to stand and hold, and perhaps to be killed or maimed in the process. They are expected to leave their line on occasion and walk through the night silence toward the enemy line, and on rare occasion even to attack and harass the enemy line-but almost never to take the enemy line...
...Malan-props about a university's obligation to segregate its nonwhites. The nonsegregated Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand, said he, "are a blatant anomaly . . . A university, according to them, need not take into account state policies or the fundamental character of the people. University freedom, they hold, is unlimited, including the right . . . even to say whether the particular university will be for both whites and non-whites or not. On the contrary, universities must bear the same general character as the state itself...
After four minutes, the silence was broken by a bloodcurdling "Yeeeeooowwhh!" France's Guy Verrier, uttering the cry to 1) unnerve his opponent, and 2) give added power to his stomach muscles, caught his opponent with a hip hold, gave a mighty heave and hurled Austria's Robert Jaquemond to the mat. The toss earned France's Verrier, 24, a strapping 202-pounder, the individual title at the European Judo championships, and helped France win the team crown (over Austria, 2-0). The fall gave Austria's burly Jaquemond the only injury of the tournament...
...Roman Catholics hold that the state should pay for "auxiliary" services, e.g., public buses for parochial-school students...