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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Shuman won another victory: presidency of the union, by a vote of 276 to 264. He is the third Yank to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mr. President | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Among the Bullheads. For four days, as the trial went on, one boy after another described the sort of thing that goes on inside the adobe walls of Fort Grant. One boy testified that the superintendent had ordered him to hold on to two doorknobs, then lashed him with a fan belt. Another witness accused Guard Rudy Ramirez of going into inmates' rooms at night and whipping them for no apparent reason. "I saw [him] beat and kick another boy," said the witness. "He kicked him with his feet when he was down on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reasonable Punishment? | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

With all the new power and prestige her Variety column gives her, ambitious Columnist Graham can probably hold her own. Hollywood has not forgotten how Constance Bennett, indiscreetly baring her fangs, once greeted Sheilah with: "It's hard to believe that a girl as pretty as you could be the biggest bitch in Hollywood." "Not the biggest, Connie," purred Sheilah. "The second biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Third from the Right | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...film adaptation of onetime German Attaché L. C. Moyzisch's 1950 book, Operation Cicero, stresses screenplay rather than gunplay. Sample: when Cicero delivers his first batch of film to Moyzisch, he says pompously: "Destiny has held out its hand to you tonight. Take it and hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...best winter in many years draws to a close, the Harvard Ski Club will hold its annual invitation meet at Big Bromley tomorrow. Sponsored and sanctioned by the Crimson skiers, the post-season meet will attract 12 of the East's top teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Club Meet Draws Top Eastern Colleges | 3/8/1952 | See Source »

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