Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good for pleasant cruising, and the admiral's cabin an equally pleasant place for palaver and planning. No phones distracted, no callers importuned as the men who will lead the U.S. mulled things over in oceanic seclusion. ''We may never again have the opportunity to hold talks such as these aboard the ship," said the future Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. "They should pay dividends for many years...
...lunch Hearst was asked how he and his friends felt about the error and said, "We are disappointed that all the work we have put into the Smoker campaign has been in vain, and feel that the only fair way of making up for the mistake would be to hold another election with my name on the ballot...
...defensive play of Ed Condon in the second half of the last minute Brown victory on Saturday particularly pleased Shepard. Condon came off the bench to hold Brown's top scorer to two field goals...
...meantime, an uncanny and still unexplained occurrence took place. Alfred Gagnon, a Rhode Island crook, known to police the nation over as a "congenital liar," announced one day that he knew the three planners of the Brink's hold-up. To Massachusetts authorities, he was still a liar. But the Rhode Island Attorney General believed his story, insisted that police here interrogate Gagnon. One of the three masterminds, Gagnon maintained, was a roadhouse proprietor named Carlton O'Brien. Massachusetts officials still scoffed at Gagnon's story. Fifty-six hours later, they found O'Brien--riddled with bullets. The other...
...suspects summoned to testify are well-known to detectives who have been working on the case. One of them, "Speck" O'Keefe, an efficient hold-up man, was among the first batch of police record holders taken into custody in 1950, questioned and released. When O'Keefe indicated he had little to tell the grand jury, the judge cited him for contempt; another witness, a Boston bookie, received 18 months in jail on the same change, and three others were similarly charged. All are contesting...