Word: grip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week New York politicos were talking about the fact that Vito's eight year hammer lock on his district had begun to slip. His grip was partially loosened in the August primaries, when he won the Democratic nomination by a mere 562 votes and lost the Republican nomination to ex-A.A.F. Colonel Frederick V. P. Bryan, a crisp and confident lawyer. In his last two campaigns Vito had won both primaries, and that in the Red-rimmed American Labor Party to boot...
...chiseled down, and something closer to an ultimate end--a world police force to replace all national armies--is brought a niche nearer in history. Similarly, any agreements on economic, political, and social levels accomplished by hard work lessons the need to fall back on nationalism and loosens the grip of nationalist thinking on the world. Now charters and rules can help only superficially. A true realization of the magnitude of the problem can accomplish much more...
Holiday Ahead. Some of these disagreements may well be faked in order to persuade Germans that SED is really not Soviet-controlled. But there could be no doubt that the Russians no longer relied on SED as an instrument of control. They were tightening their grip through other means, such as the top-secret creation of a German zonal police organization (reportedly including a new German secret police...
...Neill suffered a paralytic stroke and for six months required constant nursing. The stroke was followed by an increasing (and incurable) palsy so severe that it made writing as physically impossible for O'Neill as it already was mentally. (To shave himself he still has to grip the razor with both hands and, even so, the act is nerve-racking.) For five years the O'Neills lived in their little apartment. During those years, O'Neill had neither the heart nor the hand for creative work. But those years of silence and suffering may yet prove...
...peace. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek proposed a five-man supercommittee (headed by U.S. Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart) to work out a plan for a coalition government with the Communists. The Communists agreed to participate on the committee if they were left undisturbed in North China. Since the Communist grip on North China -and on the main railroad arteries-was a major issue between Yenan and Nanking, this condition was not so simple as it seemed...