Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Testy, sour-pussed General Francisco J. Múgica, onetime Minister of Communications and Public Works, is an ardent Leftist and widely regarded as the man who will wear the Cardenas silks in the race. He offered to hold a banquet for his two leading rivals, conservative General Manuel Avila Camacho, who resigned as Minister of National Defense, and moderate General Rafael Sánchez Tapia, resigned commander of the Federal Military Zone. The feast would show the country that the three could be political rivals and still good friends. Unfortunately, his opponents did not feel the same way about...
...abscess. Then he scrapes out all the pulp in the root canal of the tooth, sterilizes it, and fills the shell with guttapercha. After he re-sterilizes it, he pushes the tooth back in its socket with his thumb. A gold frame is clamped on the tooth to hold it in place. After four weeks, said Dr. Messinger, the frame can be removed, for, although the tooth is not rooted to the jawbone, gum and tissue have grown solidly back around it and it can be used for chewing. He told of 65 replantations he made, each lasting about five...
...stubby fingers, which he always soaked in warm water before a performance, though still steely-supple, had just perceptibly lost something of their cascading fluidity. Critics no longer unconditionally rated him as No. 1 among the world's great pianists. But he still had what it took to hold an audience: a great past, a great presence...
...rooms in that ungainly, unfinished and unfilled neoclassic edifice sufficed to hold examples of almost all of Blake's work. No foreign loans were on hand because, alone among English artists of the first rank, Blake could be represented completely by loans from U. S. collections. Philadelphians were gracefully assured of Blake's greatness in a catalogue introduction by Book-bibber A. (for Alfred) Edward Newton...
...Teachers are sexually maladjusted. Most women teachers are not permitted to marry and hold their jobs (only one-sixth are married). Of the unmarried, one-third report themselves made unhappy by that condition...