Word: grip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategic importance of the manning of Madagascar was highlighted last week by the following eye-opening account of the German grip on South-West Africa, which is to the sea lanes on Africa's west what Madagascar is on the east. This former German colony was made a League of Nations mandate under the Union of South Africa after World War I, but down the years British enlightenment relaxed into generosity, and generosity into lack of control. Here is what a TIME correspondent saw in three South-West African towns...
This letter was circulated in Britain last week. Reginald Pinkerton, its author, is a thin-lipped, jug-eared bachelor of 49 who grasps his rolled umbrella with wary grip, never knowing when he may be attacked by a predatory female. In his young days, as a clerk in a grocery store, Reginald Pinkerton learned to fear housewives. He willingly fought through all of World War I, a man's affair. Then he took a job as a bank clerk in Argentina, where woman's place is in the home. Returning to England in 1926, he "observed the havoc...
...Crimson, on the other hand, has been hitting steadily and the several temporarily-slumped batters are removed from the lineup. In League competition, of which today's game is not a part, the nine is hitting a solid .280 and has a firm grip on third place...
Stressing the fact that an army is not fit for marching or fighting while it is still in the grip of the drinking habit, Mrs. Putnam, pointed out that the Union was trying to educates the boys with modern, interesting advice...
...what silk the U.S. has left WPB tightened its grip last week, even at the Army's expense. After March 1 "no silk may be used in the manufacture of parachutes until the grade and type has been approved by the Defense Supplies Corp." Evidently the Army had been wastefully using it on parachute shroud lines and cords instead of saving it for canopies. If nylon is subjected to similar husbanding, women can at least feel that their sacrifice is necessary...