Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team, with the pressure of 22 games without loss on it? And how about Springfield, which had nothing to lose and everything to gain and played just that way. In comparing these games, which were the openers for all teams involved, only this much is certain: Columbia didn't hold back a thing in shooting for the upset which would have made its season worthwhile, regardless of what followed. Harvard held back...
...theory is that the Russians may hold out to Germany as bait that, united under Russia, Germans can have to monopoly on industrializing China...
...California, Dick Nixon caught the first heckling about the fund just as his train was about to leave Marysville. "Tell us about the $16,000!" yelled a man on the fringe of the crowd. "Hold the train! Hold the train!" shouted Nixon. Then he launched into a reckless, belligerent counteroffensive, blaming the "smear" on the "Communists and the crooks in the Government," and declaring that Democratic Candidate John Sparkman has his wife on the Government payroll...
...Petroleum Council. Petrobrás will have the sole right to explore, exploit, refine and distribute the country's oil. The five U.S. and British companies now importing and distributing oil and byproducts may continue to do so. But aside from that, foreigners are out. The government will hold 51% or more of the monopoly's $500 million stock; no foreigners and no Brazilian married to a foreigner under a joint-property agreement may hold so much as one share in Petrobr...
...greatest source of confusion comes from a course that is so popular that the assigned room can not hold the number that enroll. When Archibald MacLeish first came to Harvard, he was assigned a moderately spacious Sever room suitable for the limited numbers who could be expected to show up for an untried lecturer. By the time rescue teams cut their way through the horde of frantic culture-seekers innundating Sever, the adaptable Registrar rescheduled the course, but for a while MacLeish lectured al fresco on the steps of Memorial Chapel...