Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin blockade. But U.S. military planners can risk no false hopes. They are ready with alternate sets of operations orders, have plans for every predictable contingency save one: evacuation of U.S. troops. The omission is not an oversight or a gamble. U.S., British and French forces are set to hold the city against all Communist pressures save an all-out attack, which, the Russians well know, would start World War III. In the cold logistics of a military exercise, this is the Berlin blockade problem...
...Khrushchev's main interest in the Macmillan visit, obvious except to Whitehall, lay in his hope that it would uncover a split between the U.S. and British governments over Berlin. When he found Macmillan consistently taking the line that the West was unshakably united in the determination to hold its position in Berlin, Khrushchev complained to his companions that Macmillan was "just sitting and saying nothing while we make proposals...
...Most sweeping of all Ayub's reforms is aimed at Pakistan's entrenched and greedy landlords, 6,000 of whom together own 7,500,000 acres. Henceforth, no owner shall be allowed to hold more than 500 acres of irrigated or 1,000 acres of non-irrigated land. The rest will be divided among his tenant farmers. Though owners will be in part compensated in government bonds, those holding feudal jagirs-the gifts of the Mogul kings to their favored warriors-will not. Eventually, as Ayub knows, the lasting benefits of his rule will depend on how well...
...have won 226 meets, losing 44. Of these setbacks, 23 have been to Yale. His best years were with the 1936-37 squad, which snapped Yale's 175 meet winning streak, and the 1937-38 team, which repeated the feat of the previous season by defeating the Bulldogs to hold a 24-meet winning string for the Crimson...
...hopes of Judge Letts that an election could be held a year after his appointment of monitors had vanished by last December when he told the Brotherhood not to hold its convention in January, and that it would have to get permission from the court before scheduling an election. Prospects for the future seem to depend on some form of more active federal intervention, not only in the International, but in the Conferences and the locals as well...