Word: grip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forces of business, he claimed, hold practically all the press, radio, schools and other media of communication in an ironclad grip. Through these, business conducts its propaganda behind the front of the "little...
...politicians-not even Communists-can get away with this kind of wild double-dealing forever. In Belmont, and in thousands of Belmonts all over France, disillusion has set in. All the grip which La Terre has acquired on the peasants, all the attractiveness of hardbitten, fast-talking Communist farmer Deputies will not prevent the party from losing hundreds of thousands of rural votes at the Oct. 19 elections...
Last week, with her country losing its grip on a large part of its overseas empire, Queen Wilhelmina announced that, "for reasons of health," she would "temporarily" transfer the business of ruling to her strapping daughter, Princess Juliana (mother of four strapping little Princesses). To her shocked people, Her Majesty's first minister announced that there was nothing serious to worry about; the Queen, with all "the heavy burdens weighing . . . on her," was just tired...
...Stab in the Back." The left-wing leaders did not need Wallace's praise; they had a tight grip on most of the 948 delegates (representing 600,000 members). But they used it to strengthen their attack on U.E.'s small group of right-wingers, led by James B. Carey, one of the U.E.'s founders and onetime president. Slim Jim Carey, now the C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer, knew that he had not the slimmest chance of unhorsing the top trio, but he carried his fight to the floor. Matles and Fitzgerald gave Carey the full...
...Johnny Suggs became a father. He and his new family moved 15 miles to Lithia Springs, Ga.; there Johnny took over a combined golf course and-picnic grounds. At three, his roly-poly daughter, Louise, was traipsing around the course after him, swinging at golf balls with a baseball grip...