Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speak too well for modern culture. If society's rejects can be coddled and hosannaed into giving up their possessions, leaving the country and then killing themselves, then there are a lot of sheep out there and a lot of wolves to lead them. Moonies stalk the streets, even hold semi-respectable conventions; they and countless other groups offer an identity to people alienated by a society that doesn't give a good god damn about them. And Jonestown or not, upcoming FBI investigation or not, these cults will continue to flourish...
...invoked the Alaska "Shield Law" 68 times. The 1967 law, never before tested, permits reporters to refuse to reveal their sources unless a judge orders them to after a special hearing. Kelly's defense lawyers won the right to a special hearing, but Porterfield won the right to hold on to the notes...
...required that three University police be present at the party," Archie C. Epps, dean of students, said yesterday. "But I thought it was important to try to hold the party because it was sort of a self-improvement measure on the part of South House," he added...
Janet F. Hinkley, assistant to the masters of Currier House, said "I wouldn't hold up my directory because of room changes...
Speculators have trouble getting hold of riyals. Some branches of European and American banks in Bahrain have attempted to float bond issues denominated in riyals in Europe. They got a stern bawling out from the Saudis for not asking permission to launch what the Saudis feared might be the beginning of a perilously unstable Euroriyal market...