Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the curtain clanged down again. Ike had said he would stay at Augusta for another 10 days. Meanwhile, political dopesters buzzed with comment. Was George Allen, who had successfully hitched himself to the coattails of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, getting his grip on Ike's? Had he brought Ike a significant message from Truman? Had the next President of the U.S. been named on the Augusta National Golf Club's 18th green? Or-and this is what set the dopesters' teeth on edge-was it possible that Ike and Georgie had gone...
...group of Catholic students, directed by the Church hierarchy, has taken over the National Student Association. Unfortunately for Mr. Marsh's argument, he has slipped on many facts, and has carefully selected others. His statements that NSA's activities have been non-existent, and its policies completely in the grip of Catholic-controlled reactionaries are false. There is a vigorous Catholic bloc in NSA, and there have been unhappy examples of smear-scare techniques at their worst. But to damn NSA in such sweeping terms makes one wonder whether Mr. Marsh is not bitter over the failure...
...class hats I acquired such a grip...
Ever since U.N. voted partition, Arabs have been tightening their grip on the lifeline of Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews-the road to Tel Aviv, which twists from the city through the rocky Judean hills to the coastal plain. The city's Jewish population, which used to buy 80 to 90% of its food from neighboring Arabs, now depends on food convoys from the Jewish settlements along the coast. One strongpoint on that road is the village of Kastel, a cluster of dirty stone huts, one big house and a mosque. Jewish Haganah fighters, after seizing it, held...
After Tom Pendergast got his grip on the city administration, its seamy side got much more national attention than its solid core of respectability and its increasing commercial importance. During Pendergast's reign, the town was a free-&-easy capital of grifters, gamblers, gangsters and striptease grinders. In no other city in the U.S. were vice and gambling so well protected. When the Boss needed money, his boys put a deeper bite on the brothel-keepers, bookies and crapshooters. Tom Pendergast, who made his town a trap for suckers, turned out to be one of the biggest suckers himself...