Word: grip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William M4 ("Little Bill") Johnston, 51, ping-pong-sized (120-lb.) tennis player whose 1915 victory over Maurice McLoughlin and gallant losing battles with Big Bill Tilden in the '20s made court history; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. A deadly hitter, with a Western-grip forehand famed around the world, Little Bill was twice national singles champion, teamed with Tilden to win the Davis Cup seven times running...
...oddly does that once prophetic message read today! How many broken hopes lie on each side of that grand, sweeping highway! For new national religions have arisen in our time with a power and a grip on the soul of men far surpassing that of the gentle and humane rationalist appeal...
...legal knowledge I acquired such a grip...
Famine was tightening its grip on the subcontinent. Sir A. Ramaswami Mudaliar warned of "ten million dead on the streets of India" unless he could buy four million tons of grain this year in the U.S.* Independence alone would not answer the food problem, which would recur until India had more irrigation, more fertilizer, better agricultural methods and more industry. Many Indian leaders looked to the U.S. for machinery and technical advice. The most practical immediate step would be a U.S. loan to Britain, which would permit London to pay off much of its wartime debt to India...
...developing industry he claimed the island could in time establish a balanced economy that would overcome the crippling grip of the one-crop system...