Word: holds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tonight, the Selective Service System will hold its lottery-by-birth-date. All men 19 to 25 years of age, inclusive, will be affected...
...suspects have been destroyed, the owners exiled to Arab countries or imprisoned. As the war of terror has intensified, so have Israeli reprisals. When an Israeli soldier was killed by a terrorist hand grenade in the village of Halhoul in occupied Jordanian territory last month, Israelis decided to hold the community responsible. Acting under Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's new concept of "neighborhood punishment," they dynamited 18 dwellings and relocated their inhabitants...
...Rock. Wonder Woman. The Plastic Sheena. Whatever unladylike sobriquets attach to Raquel, there is no denying her box-office attraction. Clad mainly in animal hides and bikinis, brandishing her publicity photos like the jawbone of an ass, Raquel set about five years ago to hold off the entire critical elite of cinema and conquer mankind through Hollywood. Now only 29, she has enjoyed extraordinary success. Her brooding, aquiline face and brimming, arabesque body (37-22-35) have launched thousands of picture spreads. The mere mention of her name (or the sight of it, in endless Laugh-In balloon gags...
...jawboning, but it is different from Johnson's. Johnson's jawboning involved White House pressure on specific industries against specific price increases. Nixon is substituting mild admonitions to business and labor en masse. Last month he wrote to 2,200 business and labor leaders, urging them to hold the line on wage and price increases. Last week he followed up by inviting 3,000 corporate leaders to the cavernous ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel; 1,800 came for an anti-inflation "briefing" reminiscent of a college pep rally on the eve of the big Thanksgiving...
...social situation rivaling that of Depression days is inevitable." President Michael Daroff of Botany Industries, Richard Schwartz of Jonathan Logan, Inc., and Alfred Slaner of Kayser-Roth gloomily agreed with Phillips that consumers are showing growing resistance to clothing price increases; Daroff added that "the only way to hold our prices is to hold labor costs...