Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junta members, were balking at their reassignments. Premier Papadopoulos, intent on avoiding further damage to his government's reputation abroad, seemed to have sided with the doves, who wanted to spare the condemned man. The decision to do just that suggested that he had in fact tightened his hold on the government by one more notch...
...will hold a rally on the steps of University Hall during the Faculty meeting. Kazin said the rally would have gone on even if Ford had permitted representatives of SDS to join the meeting...
...Hold it! We don't take nobody for a ride here, that's just the tax that's been figgered for you, and if you don't want...
...ought to be able to watch as well as learn from him. But after tripping over and disarranging at least five of his works in process, and after being disturbed at the interview with Mirko by a stray artsy busybody, it's easy to see why Mirko doesn't hold open house. His jungle of massive wood beams from razed houses (works-to-be), metal shears, styrofoam, paints, glues, saws and over 100 sculptures and sculptures-to-be is neither suitable nor navigable for masses of visitors...
...iron. But unlike a jail cell, which offers some sanctuary, Adlow's courtroom is thoroughly menacing. You are intimidated by the judge, by the bailiffs with their thick chins and thin lips, by the chuckling old men who come to watch every day, and mostly by the walls that hold you inside--even if you are a free man, as I was Thursday, just a spectator...