Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other business, the assembly will hold elections tomorrow and Friday in the Freshman Union for ten vacant freshman seats. Under an extended deadline, 20 freshmen submitted position papers for the freshman seats on the Assembly, and all but three seats in the North Yard are contested...
...even more energized than usual. He had played about a half against Columbia and Wesleyan, but coach George Ford left him in for all but the final ten minutes against the Huskies. RiCapito is a defender; and Ford had decided that the way to beat the Huskies was to hold down the fort, not attack rashly. After a shaky first few minutes the Crimson defense did just that, eventually shutting down the high-powered Connecticut forward line all together in the second half...
...Pope's visit to Poland in June, however, had a considerable emotional hold on that country, George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity, said Monday. Williams returned last week from a month-long trip to Poland, where he conducted interviews for a book he is writing about the Pope...
Tonight, in a very special way, I hold out my hands to the youth of America. In Mexico City and Guadelajara I met the youth of Latin America. In Warsaw and Cracow I met the youth of Poland. In Rome I meet frequently groups of young people from Italy and from all over the world. Yesterday I met the youth of Ireland in Galway. And now with great joy I meet you. For me, each one of these meetings is a new discovery. Again and again I find in young people the joy and enthusiasm of life, a searching...
...this specialist in the foibles and duplicity of man. I have met no one, with the possible exception of Charles de Gaulle, who so distilled raw, concentrated will power. He was planted there with a female attendant close by to help steady him (and on my last visits to hold him up); he dominated the room?not by the pomp that in most states confers a degree of majesty on leaders, but by exuding the overwhelming drive to prevail...