Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of Lionel Strongfort, and Charles Atlas was just starting to advertise in a big way. Soapy used to get all of those muscle books and send for all of Atlas' muscle courses and all the gadgets. He used to use me to practice his wrestling holds. I was sort of double-jointed and gave poor Soapy a bad time, I'm afraid. He would prop the book up in front of him and then get a horrible armlock on me. I would wiggle out of it, and Soapy would check the book again and mutter...
...desk in the Hotel Matignon, his official Paris residence, and slips away to look over the prosperous tannery he still owns in Saint-Chamond, and to chat with local shopkeepers and housewives about the problem on whose solution he has staked his political future: how to cut prices, hold back inflation. Recently, le petit Premier made a startling discovery: high prices are caused not simply by "greedy capitalists," as the Socialists and Communists would have it, but by "thrifty" French housewives who have forgotten how to be thrifty...
Wages. The Bevanly host and its Communist outriders condemned the Tory government's efforts to cut spending and hold the line on wages, as a threat to Socialism. But dapper Lincoln Evans, leader of iron and steelworkers, while promising that moderate wage claims will get T.U.C. backing, spoke unpalatable truths: "The world doesn't . . . owe us a living. If we price ourselves out of world markets, we will automatically produce unemployment...
They are the men and women currently on the waiting list for the Law School dormitories--which already have been filled, and can only hold 500 men anyway. "We've never been able to take them, all," said Dean Bevins, "after all, we have 500 spaces for 1500 people...
...present short reading period will probably hold in future years, if the revised calendar works our successfully...