Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sponsors see to it that the deserters are provided with housing (usually in student dormitories) and spending money ($16 a week in government welfare pay). They have not, however, been able to make them feel at home. Few of the Americans have been able to learn enough Swedish to hold down a job, and many spend their days just drinking beer at Stockholm's Karl Marx Cafe...
...West Germany and insist that they will not let them pass border checkpoints. The U.S., France and Britain immediately declared that, under Allied agreements, everyone has the right to travel between West Berlin and West Germany. Their commanders in West Berlin also reminded the Russians that the Allies hold them, and not the East Germans, responsible for the free flow of travel to Berlin...
...tough, authoritarian rule. Robles was a member of the legislative commission that impeached Arias, and the two have been enemies since. Robles, who angrily termed last week's impeachment "null and void," faces a formal trial before the National Assembly on March 24; if the votes against him hold up, he will then be removed from office. That is, unless the country's 4,000-man national guard intervenes...
...Senate, there were zero to two Democrats in the '20's, a high of 14 in 1935, three to six in the '40's, and seven to 15 in the '50's. Twelve Democrats currently hold Senate seats. In addition, both of Wisconsin's U.S. Senators and three of its ten Congressmen are Democrats...
Boston's battling Bruins are fighting to keep hold of their share of second place tonight as they take on the Chicago Blackhawks in the Garden...