Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leisure moment General Honjo himself favored U. S. correspondents with this Yuletide sentiment: "Manchuria is now a frozen and unhappy land, in the grip of winter and in the depths of woe. But you have a phrase in English-'If winter comes, can spring be far behind?'. The actuating motive of Japanese policy is to bring genuine spring back to this frozen land...
...professor, who is irked by an editorial policy, has a grip over its proponents that the administrator lacks. The latter must be restrained from disciplinary measures by a regard for public opinion. No such limitation is placed on the professor. He may indulge in what might be called 'pedagogical hazing...
...necessity took the Vagabond away from his book and drove him up to Widener. The heroic figure of Garibaldi soon evaporated in the thin, rational air of Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps...
...against the French, to whom younger Germans simply feel that they are paying tribute, and indignation at the presence of thousands of Poles in the Ruhr mines while thousands of Germans in that district are unemployed account in part for the extreme nationalism of the Hitler party. The Jewish grip on the financial system and on the newspapers, its effect exaggerated by fabulous rumors concerning the malevolent use of that control, is responsible for anti-Semitic hatred...
...time. The ritual of initiation was pompous: in referring to meetings, it stated "everything transacted within this room is transacted Sub rosa, and detested is he that discloses it"; an oath had to be taken to "keep, hold & preserve all secrets that pertain to your duty"; a special fraternity "grip" was employed; the symbolism of the name PBK the three stars, and the letters SP on the medal, was kept scrupulously guarded...