Word: holding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...level party meeting, Ghosh flew off to Peking to beg Mao Tse-tung to be less brutal. Unsuccessful in Peking, Ghosh went back to Moscow to plead for help there, and last week completed his circle tour by scurrying home to New Delhi to try to hold the party together. Best measure of his success so far: postponement of a party central-committee meeting scheduled for this week, presumably to allow time for tempers to cool...
...Feminine Touch. To keep the peace, the Belgians packed Kalondji off to jail, but they could not hold him long. When he was released last month, the Lulua howled in rage. Last week they sought revenge. Smeared with war paint, Lulua warriors began by burning two Baluba villages to the ground and killing their inhabitants with spears and homemade muzzle-loading rifles. In the suburbs of Luluabourg, naked Lulua women swarmed through the streets screaming to their men to kill, kill, kill. Like a grass fire, murder and mutilation swept over an area of 40 miles until the number...
...been made crystal clear that the American people hold the networks responsible for what appears on their schedules." With that belated recognition of the obvious, CBS President Frank Stanton announced that his network will no longer permit "games whose major appeal is the winning of large sums of money or lavishly expensive prizes." CBS followed through by axing The Big Payoff, Top Dollar and Name That Tune...
Many carriers who must wait their turn on jet-production lines are anxious to hold off until they receive their planes and are ready to compete. Both Alitalia and Japan Air Lines, which get their first jets next spring, do not want to lower fares or lift surcharges on jet flights (first class: $30 to Japan, $20 to Europe) in their areas immediately. Says one Japan Air Lines man: "We'll cut when we have our own jets, and that's the position of any airline without jets...
...gone in the fourth quarter, however, varsity end Hank Keohane intercepted a Dartmouth pass on the Green 16, and three plays later Boulris bulled over from the five for the Crimson's winning score. The varsity's triple-threat halfback added the two points, and Harvard had only to hold off the Indians for 4:20 to clinch its most exciting win in many years. Coach John Yovicsin got a free ride to the locker room after the game...