Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athanas-sios Nicholaos determined to find some way out of the hellhole that the Reds had made of his small native land. "I would have killed myself rather than stay on in Albania," he said. But escape was not easy. Albania, according to Athanassios, is locked tight in the grip of 400 Russian civilians who completely control the government and the economy, and another 150 Russian officers who run the army and the police. The native population is for the most part sick with starvation, tuberculosis or plain terror. "It is almost impossible to avoid the security police...
...wanted jobs-made work if necessary-for all of Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed). He believes everyone is entitled to "a job, a house, and music." As Demo-Christian candidate for Florence's mayoralty two years ago, he blasted the Communists loose from a five-year grip on the city's administration. To poverty-ridden Florence he has brought low-cost housing, sanitary improvements, tree planting, free concerts. Florentines sometimes call him Il Santo (The Saint...
World War II destroyed Russia's livestock for a second time. It also loosened the Kremlin's iron grip on the Russian countryside. Peasant families nibbled at the state farms, decollectivized an estimated six million acres. They hoarded the grain and refused to give it up to the commissars. At first they got away with it. Fearful of massive famine in the wake of war, the Kremlin temporized with the muzhik's lust for land that he could call his own. The Council of Ministers agreed to let the state farms be worked by family groups...
Eight-week tryouts for all boards will start for all freshmen, sopohmores, and juniors interested. Casting aside his usual iron handed grip over the Crime's money sacks, the Business Managers last night announced that there would be free beer for all comers...
...Lords, we are shy of talking about these things . . . but when the moral law is weakened, all men are concerned. It is weakened [now] partly because the dogmas of the old theologians ... no longer grip and control conduct, partly because two great wars have shaken faith in the providential order on earth, and partly also because of the development of science, which teaches strange new doctrines in physiology and psychology, tending to weaken individual responsibility ... I believe that a great deal of nonsense is talked about this kind of quack psychology, and that we should return to common sense, which...