Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the summit of White Horse was a churned and stinking shambles, littered with the dead of both sides. Under the torrent of shells, trenches and bunkers had disappeared. "Nobody," said a U.N. officer, "can hold the top of that hill." So long as nobody held it, White Horse was a U.N. victory...
While most U.S. airlines have been climbing, Northwest Airlines has just barely managed to hold its cruising altitude. In the industry, the talk had it that Northwest's problems were due to maintenance and pilot trouble, plus mounting costs and increased competition. But a group of Eastern investors who recently blocked a proposed merger of Northwest and Capital Airlines seemed to have a different idea. They apparently thought that what the line needed was a change in the operations office...
Gary's house is packed with books, furniture, works of art, musical instruments -the accumulated treasures of a full life. His tousled study on the top floor under the eaves is lined with bookcases and filing boxes. Clamp boards holding notes and exhortations to himself are braced against the wall, and specially built slots in his old-fashioned desk hold sections of whatever book he is working on, folders with scraps of dialogue and random ideas. He writes his books in bits & pieces, may drop one section to tackle another, and sometimes drops the whole thing to work...
Alumni Schools and Scholarships Committees will hold semi-annual conventions in a Mid-Western city--probably Chicago--to supplement the Cambridge meetings, Dean Bender said late last week in an explanation of Admissions Office policies...
Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. '55, temporary Y.P. president, plans to hold the first official club meeting within ten days...