Word: holds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...junta promised to hold elections, possibly as early as next year, and to use the huge coffee and cotton plantations that occupy the bulk of the country's arable acreage for land reform. It ordered an investigation into the fate of 276 people who "disappeared" during Romero's reign. It pledged to form close ties with Nicaragua's new revolutionary government and to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. The junta also begged El Salvador's leftist guerrillas to lay down their arms and join in building a "just society...
...trouble is that with everything on earth (and off, too) being quantified, micro and macro, the world is becoming woefully littered with numbers that defy useful comprehension. Biology, for example, estimates that the human brain contains some 1 trillion cells. But can any imagination get a practical hold on such a quantity? It is easy to picture the symbolic numerals: 1,000,000,000,000. Still, who can comprehend that many individual units of anything at one time? The number teases, dazzles the mind and even dizzies it, but that does not add up to understanding. Biology ought to find...
...city will hold a non-binding referendum on the question November...
...Student Assembly last night refused to allow a South Hose delegate to hold more than one seat on the assembly...
Princeton was relentless in its offensive pressure, peppering the Crimson secondary with passes most of the way through the fourth quarter. "We couldn't hold the ball against Harvard," Navarro said. "That's how much we respected Harvard's offense with Burke St. John in there. We didn't find out until late in the game how we could stop their passing with the blitz...