Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inmates of the Norfolk Prison Colony last night succeeded where Harvard. Yale, Princeton, and Columbia men failed. They downed the English debating team from Oxford, on the topic of free national health service. Bill and Murt (prison officials would not give the inmates' last names) upheld the negative...
...same time Singh upheld India's stand in the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan, maintaining that India wants the people of Kashmir to decide whether they will join India or Pakistan...
...Attorney General Howard Mc-Grath sent FBI men to make an on-the-spot investigation to find out whether McCall's version or Irvin's was true. At week's end, a coroner's jury upheld Sheriff McCall, finding that he had fired in self-defense, and a state investigator displayed powder burns on McCall's coat sleeve which showed, he said, that McCall's arm was doubled up, indicating that there had been a struggle. But the FBI continued its own investigation...
Last week the appeals court upheld the conviction and tapped Schaasberg's wrist with a $53 fine. But it looked as though the medical profession and the courts had not heard the last of Schaasberg. "We're fighting for a principle," quacked he. "If we help patients, why should we be kept from doing...
...Tommy Bolt, of Durham, N.C., the North and South Open Golf tournament; at neighboring Pinehurst. Bolt, an unheralded pro, upheld U.S. golf prestige over Britain's visiting Ryder Cup team after all but one of the U.S. team members withdrew. Most notable of the defeated: Defending Champion Sam Snead, U.S. Ryder Cup captain, who quit after a second-round...