Word: grip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, to the fans' surprise, and to Connie's too, the astonishingly athletic Athletics were playing first-division ball. Arriving at Shibe Park for a home stand, they took a firmer grip on fourth place. Not since 1934 had they stood so high so late in the season. Said their old Manager Mack, who is 84 now: "I've been in baseball a long time,* but I've never seen a team like this one for spirit and determination...
While all Cambridge peeled off clothing and waited for the promised thunder-showers yesterday evening, the U. S. Weather Bureau was forecasting for today the first break in the sweltering heat wave which has held the Boston area in its grip since Saturday...
...mean me. Why I'm here to study, of course," she lisped, regaining a fierce grip on the collected works of Havelock Ellis.Bitter bear alone: What man will fill the empty chair...
...visiting a shrine. . . . Communism is now a fully fledged religion which claims to be of universal application. . . . It has a tremendous literature of commentary and exegesis, and all the usual saints and martyrs and heresies. . . . It is rigidly orthodox and highly fanatical. . . . And this . . . religion has really got a grip on the world...
...like "Four Saints" or "Mother of Us All," but the music is exactly right-no more nor less-for its frightening story. Menotti is a composer who can be described only as appealing; his music uses modern devices, manages to attract the listener without letting him out-of the grip of the opera in toto. He uses chiefly a semirecitative style, but he proves conclusively his ability to write an aria with an exceptionally lovely song which he gives the daughter near the close of the first...