Word: grip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prewar isolationists like Wisconsin's Progressive Senator Bob LaFollette sniffed suspiciously at the Great Blueprint, as if it were a new League of Nations in a slick disguise. Senator Bob's tight grip on his own Progressive Party may be slipping* but in Washington he is still a man to be reckoned with. As a Foreign Relations Committeeman whose Senate seat is good until January 1947, his voice may carry far in the Great Debate. Last week The Progressive, official weekly organ of La Follette's party, complained of "the almost frenzied haste with which the Administration...
...handling rifles, planting mines, hurling grenades, taking cover. The German press coined a new slogan: "We will fight before the Rhine, on the Rhine and, if we must, behind the Rhine." German businessmen, visiting Switzerland, said revolt at home was out of the question: Himmler had too firm a grip. Hitler could still command a substantial majority in a free election because the Germans saw no alternative. Home-front morale was higher than the Wehrmacht's. Only frightful chaos and Bolshevism could result if the Allies insisted on fighting the war to its bitter...
Company B tightened its grip on first place in the intramural league yesterday, as it took a 9 to 0 forfeit win from the NROTC. With less than two weeks left in the hard-ball season, the undefeated B team has a one game edge on its nearest rival, in a race which any of four teams might conceivably...
...divisions which Hitler had in France and the Low Countries three months ago, 15 have been destroyed. 15 badly mauled; the rest are in peril. East, west and south, the Allies will probably cut down many more divisions before finally contracting their grip on the central Nazi fortress...
...Reich, throw Germany back into the chaos of little states which Bismarck made a nation, and thus wreck the victors' plans for a united but weakened Germany. In the confusion, the underground Nazis would do their damndest to make life impossible for the occupying troops, keep "a ruthless grip on a cowed population." Concluded the Observer...