Word: grip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--Russian troops have recaptured 200 villages in the Rostov area, thrown the Germans back six miles west from Tagaurog and opened a thundering artillery barrage near Kharkov in a general southern front offensive that may compel the Germans to release their tightening grip on Moscow and send help there, Russian dispatches reported today...
...Apathy and pessimism grip the people. . . . They pray for some miracle that may bring them peace early. Large sections of the people don't care what kind of a peace it is, and many are far more afraid of a German victory than a British. . . . The people seem now a people peculiarly devoid of a capacity for hatred of anyone...
...They are an individualistic people which a generation of Fascism has been unable to regiment. . . . They know they are in the grip of a tyranny. Some few like it and get fat on it. Most of them seem to accept it with a grumbling resignation, and the capacity for revolt does not appear to be, at present, in them...
...when the war ended, Patton had little more than a nuisance grip. South of the town, the Blues' main body was still 25 miles away. The Blues' armored troops were just getting ready to cross the Sabine. And Ben Lear still had in reserve a powerful slug: the Sixth Infantry Division, and the bulk of his armored troops...
...best amateur golfers in the U.S. include a New Jersey printer named Billy Dear, Patty Berg's kid brother Herman, onetime world's No. 1 Tennist Ellsworth Vines and hard-boiled Jim Oleska, a Brooklyn cop with a cross-handed grip. Billy Dear was out of play last week because Mrs. Dear is expecting a little Dear this week. The rest of these low-scorers and 146 others who survived sectional qualifying tests met in Omaha for the 45th, most upsetting and least sportsmanlike U.S. Amateur golf championship...