Word: holding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity defense has tightened up in recent games. With Lanny Keyes, Bron Thayer, and Mike Adair in the line-up, the Crimson was successful in 14 out of 20 clears against Tufts, and might be able to hold the Dartmouth attack in close check...
...traditional argument that American industry should be protected in case there is a war simply does not hold here. The instruments can be produced by companies with little experience in the field, even if some immediate and overwhelming need did develop--an improbable prospect anyway...
...alcoholics treated at Shadel Hospital have admitted doing so). The patient insists that he never gets "drunk," which may be true, since a constantly high level of blood alcohol need not impair his actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally admit to himself that he is really "drunk." It is hard to deny; he can no longer control his behavior, is beset by marriage, money and job crises. His main problem is accepting a doctor's diagnosis: alcoholism...
...reduce his lunch to an apple or skip it altogether, but he still finds time to fly kites with his four children ("a little high-altitude research," he calls it), likes to work in his basement workshop. His most recent achievement: a model covered wagon, big enough to hold his nine-year-old daughter and friends. For the brilliant assistants and students who have gathered around him, he has full appreciation. "I am a sort of scoutmaster around here," he says mildly...
...heroine (Bardot), according to the synopsis, is "a semiprofessional prostitute"; half the time she makes love for money, half the time for fun. One day when business is slow, she and another streetwalker hold up a jewelry store. Her accomplice is caught. Bardot runs off to see a famous lawyer (Gabin). How will she pay his fee? Calmly she raises her skirts above her hips, suggests that he attach her source of income...