Word: hold
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...beauty is only scan deep, how can the buyer beware? The best arbiters of children's books are still, as I.B. Singer says, the children who can neither fake a laugh or suppress a snore. It is they who will be formed by the pages they hold in their hands and in their minds. It is they who will decide which books will be read over and over and which will lie neglected until the next garage sale...
...Country and the Father of Pittsburgh. At least four U.S. Presidents were known as "His Accidency" (Tyler, Fillmore, Arthur and Andrew Johnson). That name, while suggestive, is still a cut above "His Fraudulency" (Rutherford B. Hayes). Mar tin Van Buren was alternately called "Whiskey Van," because he could hold his liquor, and "The American Talleyrand" (though Talleyrand was never known as the French Van Buren). We will not discuss Wobbly Willie McKinley or Old Rough and Ready...
...that year, they had released She Loves You and appeared live on a BBC variety show in front of thousands of screaming fans in the audience and unverifiable millions of new converts and dazed parents sitting at home in front of the telly. I Want to Hold Your Hand came out in the U.S. in the first week of 1964, and it seemed then for a while that both sides of the Atlantic were up for grabs. Beatles forever...
Finally, Moscow is increasingly concerned that Poland's heresy will take hold in other East bloc countries, possibly in the Soviet Union itself. Says Marshall Goldman,'associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "If the Poles get away with it, the Russians know it will spread." Already, reports are multiplying that tiny free trade union movements may be cropping up in other Soviet satellites. The first explicit confirmation came in a speech, published only last week but delivered a month earlier by Jan Fojtik, a Czechoslovak party ideologist. "In connection with the events in Poland...
Many European and Japanese leaders criticize American timidity over atomic power. They hold the U.S. responsible for slowing international research and development on the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and new technology for breeder reactors. Says former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt: "Nobody should pretend that mankind can return to nuclear innocence...