Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Master Brower threw an appropriately big champagne victory party at Apthorp House after the contest. He and his team celebrated the win and drank toasts to their hope of a greater victory over the Yale soccer champions, if Adams can hold on to its lead. Only Dudley now lies in Adams' path to the House soccer championship...
Brown didn't recover from that initial setback until 1914, when, after losing 20 times in 21 years (there was no game in 1904), it managed to hold the Crimson to a scoreless tie. It wasn't until 1916 that the Bruins finally achieved a victory, winning by the convincing margin...
...hard for Americans to accept as the man. But surely the ten years since Jinnah's death argue well against democracy. As Ayub's former partner said at the time of the coup, "I am quite certain that we could never have fair and honest elections. When we did hold municipal elections in Karachi only 28 per cent voted and a full 50 per cent of the votes were bogus." Mirza concluded that "Democracy without education is hypocrisy without limitation...
...there were two explanations of Hussein's "vacation": that he had decided that it was hopeless to keep up the struggle and would go into exile; that he genuinely felt that order was now sufficiently restored so that he could risk absenting himself for a while. The optimists hold that Nasser is reluctant to take over Jordan because he would then be burdened by half a million Palestine refugees as well as by the economic load now borne by the U.S. They point out that Nasser recently shut down the "Jordan People's Radio." which from neighboring Syria...
Mind & Body. Guided by staff anthropologists, the clinic accepts native Navajo medicine and medicine men-in sharp contrast with most oldtime medical missionaries, who forbade the Navajos to practice their rituals. Fortunately, the Navajos have some sound ideas about health. Health, they hold, consists in being in harmony with all one's surroundings-human, animal, and the spirits of nature. They recognize no dichotomy between mind and body; so all their medicine is, in a sense, psychosomatic...