Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideas and views of West Germany's Paul Schulz [April 2] certainly are not reflective of the Lutheran faith, as his defrocking attested. So why should he be trying to hold on to a Lutheran background, and why is he accusing his accusers of anything...
...Mississippi's capital city was a series of torrential rains (19 in.) during the week before Easter. The runoff water threatened to burst the Barnett Dam, forcing the Army Corps of Engineers to make a hard choice: 1) it could restrain the flow, gambling that the dam would hold, but risking a catastrophe if it did not; 2) it could ease pressure by releasing controlled amounts of water, pushing the Pearl over its levees and into Jackson. It chose the second...
Conceivably, as Smith himself implied last week, some of the special protective clauses for whites may be dropped from the constitution after the new government takes hold. "Whether we like it or not," he told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, "minority governments are unacceptable to the rest of the world. I had always hoped we could avoid black majority rule in my lifetime. But you have to change your tactics in this game, and we came to the conclusion that if we didn't change, we couldn't survive...
...rivals. Says a former colleague: "Muzorewa is at his best as a preacher and at his worst as a Cardinal." Though a reluctant politician at first, he waged a strenuous campaign, traveling around the country for an average of five or six appearances a day. At these he would hold forth on his ideas about building a new country "without friction" and pass out buttons bearing the U.A.N.C. Slogan WE'RE THE WINNERS...
...second period, Boston struck back for two goals in 57 seconds. First, Jean Ratelle knocked in Rick Middleton's rebound, then Don Marcotte wristed a pass from Terry O'Reilly past Ken Dryden to make it 2-1 Boston at 5:34. But the one-goal lead could not hold...