Word: holdes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...efforts throughout the world, on outpost positions, I mean positions that are exposed to immediate Communist threat, physical threat, if we will help those people hold out and get ourselves back where we belong as reserves to move in to any threatened danger point if they carry it to that point, carry it to that level, then what we will be doing it will be taking these 22 million South Koreans, pushing programs for getting them ready to hold their own front line...
...unit in the control of the Kansas (Kaw) River Basin, it was blocked for 14 years by angry farmers whose land would be flooded, and who argued instead for a federally financed program of soil conservation (contouring, terracing) and small detention dams on the land to hold the water where it fell. Each year the late Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas knocked the Tuttle Creek item out of the engineers' money bill...
...proved Partlow or Smith a Communist, and that anyway, that was not the issue. Dodd got to the heart of the matter: "A newspaper has. . . a quasi-public responsibility . . . In view of our nation's struggle today against the forces of Communism throughout the world, all those who hold a place of public influence and trust must be ready to stand up and answer the Communist charges . . . The management of a [newspaper] has a right to expect its employees who are so accused to answer these charges . . . This both men refused...
...more orthodox citizens looked somewhat askance at the perpetual ferment seething in the Hepburn house, and this attitude was sometimes reflected in the brutal behavior of the neighbors' pitiless young. Kate took to shaving her head every summer so as to give her playmates less of a hand-hold when they locked in combat. One day, a cattily candid friend remarked to Mrs. Hepburn that it was a pity Kate was such a frail child. Kate, seeing through the pity to the insult, charged across the lawn and hurled herself headlong against a tree. If that wasn...
Worse than the actual hiccuping is the vomiting it brings on. Since his illness, he has eaten nothing but mashed carrots, peas and toast with tea. He has never been able to hold food for more than 40 minutes, and now the time is down to ten minutes-not long enough for his digestive system to extract the nourishment his body needs. Standing 5 ft. 6 in. and always slight (never over 135 Ibs.), he is now down to 76 Ibs. He sleeps fitfully, twitching all the time. Lately the hiccups have speeded up from 60 to 70 a minute...