Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan, upon its creation in 1947, began to loosen some of the old restrictions on women: purdah lost ground, women got a couple of seats (which they still hold) in the parliament. But the mullahs of Islam have reasserted the old customs; the Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, widow of the assassinated Premier and once a militant suffragist, has been forced into a quiet life, and the wife of the new Premier hides uncomplainingly in strictest purdah...
...Egypt that the stirrings of emancipated women rocked Islam's elders most, for it took place in the very shadow of the mosques and chambers where the high priests of Islam hold their greatest sway. Well-to-do Egyptian women formed the Feminist National Party. Another group, Daughters of the Nile, led by smart and young (34) Doria Shafik, a philosophy graduate of the Sorbonne, signed up more than 1,000 upper-class Egyptian women. They prowl Cairo fixing politicians with the same gimlet stare on which Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt once impaled squirming U.S. Senators...
...true secrecy of the voting and the honesty of the count-attested to by U.N. observers-were encouraging, and to Westerners who still doubted it, the balloting demonstrated Syngman Rhee's strong hold on the South Korean masses. He was strongest in rural areas. In Pusan, where South Koreans could see how Rhee "tyrannized" the National Assembly, the old hero-while beating his nearest opponent by 24,000-got only 45% of the vote...
...Arab war in 1948 left the Israelis with only a tantalizing toe hold in Jerusalem. The Arab Legion held the Old City. Since then, the U.N. in three separate resolutions has urged that the entire city be internationalized. But as the Israelis learned during their war for independence, one fait accompli is worth a dozen U.N. resolutions. They set out to make the toe hold a foothold...
...Mountain, In Plain. The struggle pits guerrillas of the out-of-power Liberal Party against the troops and military police of the Conservative government. On the map, the guerrillas hold a third of the country, but their third, the rolling, grassy eastern llanos, is thinly populated. In the llanos, 5,006 irregulars commonly ambush and cut down invading government troops and steal their arms. The guerrillas themselves are targets of futile bombing...