Word: grip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tennessee. Aging, dapper Boss Ed Crump, who can swing 57,000 Memphis votes with his little finger, proved that his grip on Tennessee is as tight as ever. Over formidable opposition-supported mightily by New Deal Publisher Silliman Evans' Nashville Tennessean-Crump's men swept the Democratic primary...
...Atlantic, Britain and the U.S. might cover initial landings, the seizure of a few airdromes, the quick delivery of enough land-based fighters to hold the air over northern Norway while troops tried to secure a real hold. If successful, the Allies could then break Germany's air grip on the convoy route to Murmansk and Archangel, perhaps compel a major German diversion from Russia's northern fronts. If they failed-and the odds against final success would be great -they might still upset the Nazis enough to increase the chances of success along the invasion coast nearer...
Time to Rest. Congressional leaders had already warned the President not to try to get any firmer grip on wages and farm prices. They warned him that he could not, told him to use executive and persuasive powers he already has. At week's end he had apparently decided to compromise, somehow, with the public demand for action. Anyway, Congress coolly went home on a five to six weeks' vacation, for a little political fence mending...
Cradle of Hate. Itagaki was born at precisely the right time. In 1885, when his peasant mother bore him in Iwate Prefecture, the Samurai grip on the Japanese army had been broken for twelve years. Until 1873, only the sons of Japan's warrior caste could be officers; and, until a very few years before that, ingrown Japan was uninterested in the schemes of conquest which alone could develop military imperialists. As it was, Seishiro Itagaki was free to join and rise in the new army. Japan in his boyhood was storing up the ambitions, greeds and hatreds which...
...radio performance of Dmitri Shostakovitch's Seventh Symphony had every prospect of being one of the greatest occasions in musical history. The composer was considered the best living symphonist, the orchestra was first-rate, the conductor Toscanini, and the audience immense. With Germany and Russia locked in a death-grip from Leningrad to the Black Sea, and the music fresh from the pen of Russia's Composer Laureate, the event had tremendous news value...