Word: holding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four weeks ago when Nikita Khrushchev stirred up the Berlin crisis, world attention focused on whether the vital but vulnerable Western outpost could and would hold out. The answer was yes. But by this week it was clearer than ever that the prime intent of Khrushchev's maneuvers is to reopen the far more complex problem of divided Germany and its future...
...warfare. In the past four weeks Khrushchev has effectively reminded everyone that at no cost to himself he could make it extremely awkward and expensive for the West to stay in Berlin. Last week from Central Europe came reports that, after threatening the whip, the Russians were about to hold out a carrot. Reported terms...
When the Australian press tired of chronicling the Kramer hassle, it turned loose all its superlatives on a lanky kid of 18 that Kramer has been grooming for the Cup matches. Brought along chiefly for experience, Earl ("Butch") Buchholz Jr. took hold under Kramer's tutelage, put some power into his scrambling game, upset both Anderson and the U.S.'s Alex Olmedo in the New South Wales championships, and went to the finals before losing to Cooper. Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "A tennis prodigy." Headlined the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial: THIS U.S. BOY COULD TAKE DAVIS...
...Adams House Committee has postponed elections for Student Council and two others are considering a delay, despite a plea last night that all Houses hold elections as scheduled this Wednesday...
...ridiculous to hold elections now," Stephen D. Isaacs '59, chairman of the Adams House Committee, commented. "We have a right to decide when elections are to be held." Adams House will hold its election during the reading period...