Word: holding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consist of a Russian attempt to "unpack the package" by throwing out a series of isolated counterproposals, each designed to catch the fancy of one of the Western powers and to horrify the others. (Example: an appeal for a mutual reduction of armed forces in central Europe, which would hold out to Britain the prospect of dismantling her costly Army of the Rhine, but would strike France and West Germany as the forerunner to U.S. military withdrawal from Western Europe.) Aware of the West's well-publicized failure to formulate any agreed-upon "fallback" positions, the Soviets could thus...
...Venezuela's new government-no small feat with Venezuela's record for jackboot rule. But in Caracas, where Communist-led street mobs stoned Vice President Richard Nixon last spring and rumbled menacingly when their candidate lost a free election in December, the new notion is taking hold. In the squat white building that 16 months ago housed the dreaded cops of ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez' Seguridad National, a branch of the Education Ministry was quietly at work last week. Lavender city buses cruised lazily down Avenida Sucre, where the Nixon limousine...
...female who came out of a side street and stood in front of me. As I tried to sidestep, she sidestepped too, that way and the other way. [Laughter..] It sounds amusing, my lords, but it is not so amusing-really. I got bored with it. I took hold of her arms and put her on one side and tried to walk on. Whereupon she attacked me with her brolly and tried to knock...
...darkly tabbed it "the show they tried to kill," plastered ads in taxis and in rest rooms of Mayfair restaurants. A four-page tabloid called the Daily Racket (after the paper in the play) sprouted on London newsstands, loaded with barbs aimed at Fleet Streeters. Rebuffed in efforts to hold an opening-night party in a Fleet Street pressroom, he hired the Cock Tavern, a newsmen's hangout, decorated it with signs, copies of the Racket, copy boys, celebrities and drink. (The bottle count: 64 whisky, 55 wine, 46 gin, twelve brandy, 240 beer...
Norm Shepard has countered with Byron Johnson, a control specialist who looked good in beating Cornell last Saturday. Johnson is basically a relief pitcher, with a tendency to lose his effectiveness in the late innings when he starts, and Shepard had hoped to hold him in reserve for relief work against Yale...