Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think they suffered a letdown after we caught them so quickly," Metz said. "Their strategy seemed to be to try and jump out to a quick lead and hold on for the win, and they seemed frustrated. Princeton's having a few troubles this year, switching personel a lot, although their cox did tell me that this was their best race of the year...
...School students who volunteer for tutoring programs at several of the clubs throughout Boston came up with the idea to hold this year's festivities at Harvard, said David H. Rutley, a second-year student and an organizer of the day-long affair...
...elected with 50.7% of the vote last July amid charges of ballot fraud, it became evident that the P.R.I., which has ruled Mexico for 60 years, had lost its grip on the country. By striking forcefully at targets like Felix Gallardo, Salinas has boosted his prestige and consolidated his hold on the presidency. "If President Salinas won by just 50% last July," says a Mexican official and former Salinas critic, "his attacks on corruption have to have pushed his approval rating to something like...
...Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from clear that his colleagues were prepared to battle to the last with...
...knew that the vote of the committee, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, was likely to be 8 to 4 in favor of finding some violations. The defection of two Democrats is not a mortal wound, but if the same percentage abandons Wright when the entire House votes, his hold on the speakership would be in peril. Democrats had been urging Wright to launch a pre-emptive defense. Says a House leadership aide: "We were being procedural nerds with our pants drawn up to the armpits saying, 'We have to wait for the report, we have to wait...