Word: holdout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon after the plane arrived, the group was taken to the site of the Warsaw ghetto. Every building, every person, had literally gone up in smoke when German troops annihilated the last holdout of Warsaw Jewry in 1943. At the steps of the monument, New York Businessman Benjamin Meed, who had been smuggled out of the ghetto just before its destruction, read his simple statement: "I hear once again their very last command to us all: 'Pamietaj! Remember! Never forget and never forgive!' " Later, racked with sobs, he recalled the years of hiding and flight. "On the last...
...making a public stock of ering for a family-held pharmaceutical house - a topic whose entertainment possibilities are soon exhausted. All but one of the unappetizing characters are in desperate need of liquidity, and one of them has bumped off the firm's founder, who was a holdout against going public. Now the villain keeps making inept attempts on the life of the founder's daughter (Audrey Hepburn), who has succeeded to the presidency and to her father's no-sale policy...
...holdout in Daniel Flood's bribery case causes a mistrial
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SEVEN SISTER COLLEGE in pastoral western Massachusetts searching for scholar-leader and strong advocate of women's liberal arts education (school was notable holdout against coeducation trend that swept other schools in late '60s). College has 1,864 undergraduates, 21 grad students and 193 faculty; financial situation manageable, w/trim budget ($16,400,000) and healthy endowment ($48,900,000). Major challenge: must continue to attract (and hold) top-quality women to single-sex country campus of ivy-covered brownstone buildings. Salary: negotiable. Large stucco presidential home. An equal opportunity employer. Inquiries to Mount Holyoke...