Word: holding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baudouin would have gone directly from the airport to his Laeken palace, bypassing busy Brussels, with its snarled, honking traffic. Instead, riding in an open limousine, the King made a 15-mile tour of his capital city, where hundreds of police and a battalion of gendarmes were needed to hold back the curious crowds. Flowers showered down on the smiling King, who won cheers by nimbly catching bouquets in midair. Cried a plump Brussels housewife to her neighbor: "It's the American Baudouin...
...independent Federation of Malaya, will not go Communist "unless and until Malaya goes Communist." The British hope that the fervent anti-Communism of Malaya's ruling conservatives, and Lee's own comprehension of the island's economic, dependence on foreign trade and capital, will hold him on a moderate course. As he congratulated Prime Minister Lee last week, retiring British Governor Sir William Goode (who will stay on as High Commissioner until a native of Singapore can be named to the job) handed him a letter from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan offering Britain's cooperation...
...consider atheists or agnostics: (check two) 38 less likely than believers to hold ethical opinions with which you can agree; 164 just likely as believers to hold ethical opinions with which you can agree; 36 less likely than believers to do the morally right or kind thing; 3 more likely than believers to do the morally right or kind thing; 163 just as likely as believers to do the morally right kind of thing...
...believe a member of the Communist Party should be permitted to hold any teaching position in any American college or university: 79 agree with the above statement; 228 disagreed with the above statement...
...loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human shortcomings! And a substantial majority, though naturally denying the orthodox of the Incarnation, still feel that "Christ should...