Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trenches, but threaten the Communist China mainland with air and naval retaliation if the Reds cross the present Korean front lines; replace U.N. troops on the line with South Koreans as fast as they are trained. Keep U.S. supporting arms (air, artillery, supply) in action, but hold infantry divisions in strategic reserve...
...aircraft. Instead of reinforcing its army of the Rhine, the Tory government will present next week's NATO conference with only the assurance that, as yet, it does not contemplate withdrawing a single British soldier from the Continent. Partly in rationalization of their decision to hold strength at 1952 levels, the British talk airily of "new weapons" (e.g., U.S. atomic artillery) which might reduce the need for men on the ground. But economics is still at the root of the trouble. Forced to guard its solvency by gambling with its safety, Britain is exporting a sizable fraction...
Meanwhile, Carl Engleman, an M.I.T. graduate student, said he would hold a meeting Tuesday to protest the fact that public libraries in Cambridge and Boston have pulled "subversive" books and magazines off their open shelves...
...would have preferred a few more of these highpoints at the beginning, but it seemed to be Woodworth's plan to hold back as much as he could, saving the most glorious sounds for the final Hallclujah Chorus...
...opposite sides of San Francisco Bay, two teams of University of California researchers hold different theories about the cause of hardening of the arteries. On the east side, in the Berkeley campus' Donner Laboratory, Dr. John Gofman leans to the theory that giant cholesterol molecules are to blame (TIME, June 5, 1950). Now, from the University's School of Medicine on the west side, comes strong evidence to the contrary. Cholesterol, according to Drs. Henry D. Moon and James F. Rinehart, does not cause hardening of the arteries, and is not even much of a factor until...