Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opposition Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home last week reshuffled the shadows, and thereby accomplished two things: 1) a general face lift to prepare the party for new elections, which Sir Alec thinks likely before the end of the year, and 2) consolidation of his own grip as party chief by balancing off Reginald Maudling and Ted Heath, the most promising younger Tory leaders...
Hoffmann also stated that since North Vietnam has no desire to become a Chinese satellite, it wants to involve the Soviet Union in the situation. "By playing the Soviets against the Chinese," he explained, "they hope to escape from the Chinese grip...
...practically every tournament since he joined the U.S. pro circuit in 1957, and whose 1965 winnings, going into last week's Crosby, totaled exactly $0. But Crampton was taking lessons. And from whom? Jack Nicklaus. "Jack noticed that I was hooding my drives," said Crampton. "He adjusted my grip at the top, and that forced me to open my clubface at impact. Then he stood there and watched me hit for 45 minutes. I am grateful that a man of his stature should take the time with a nobody like...
Inheritance alone would not give him his grip and facility at 23; with us hereditary statesmen and party leaders ripen later. Perhaps it is his American strain to which he adds a keenness, a shrewdness, a half-cynical personal ambition, a natural aptitude for advertisement, and happily, a sense of humor...
...while, pilots and engineers argued about the wing control. One faction held that when the pistol grip was pulled backward, the wings should fold backward in concert. Others insisted that since all pilots are trained to push engine throttles forward when they want more speed, they might get confused at a dangerous moment if they were compelled to pull the wing control backward for the same effect. The second faction won. Now, with a plane that can fly to any place in the world in a single day, F-111 pilots will still be handling controls as familiar and reliable...