Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Is the Middle? The other extreme way of dealing with the situation is to hold the South at all costs. This is exemplified by Candidate Richard Russell, who in all likelihood could hold all Southern states against Eisenhower. But Russell is almost certain to wreak havoc in the doubtful Northern and Western states...
...personal physician. Dr. Graham found that he had a low fever, decided he had contracted a mild virus infection-his first illness, beyond simple colds, since becoming President. He was asked to stay in bed. Eyeing the patient, the doctor also decided that it was time to make him hold still for a thorough physical checkup...
...from the Dean's utterances, become - dare I say it - as blind, as unreasonable and as stupid about the Dean as the Dean is himself. We should try to help them to escape from that kind of fanatical disease. There is no charge against the Dean because he holds certain political and sociological views . . . he is fully entitled to hold these, however mistaken they may be . . . He has broken no law, civil or ecclesiastical...
...Bosch called The Millennium, more often known as The Garden of Early Delights. Its three panels represent, respectively, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, a panorama of naked and untrammeled figures disporting themselves in the world outside, and a scene of dark punishment in Hell. Most critics hold this to be a logical sequence of Creation, worldly pleasure and eternal punishment. Fränger disagrees. He believes that Bosch's naked figures represent not lust but "primal innocence." In his view, the artist was portraying an "Adamite family ... in which unbounded sensual delight and serene chastity hold...
...college professor, Johns Hopkins' Economist Clarence D. Long is gloomily aware that his earning power has been steadily losing ground in the endless marathon with rising living costs. As a practicing economist, he is also professionally concerned by "this singular inability of the pedagogue to hold his place at the American banquet table...