Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...branched into iron and gold mines, newspapers and film companies (Greta Garbo got her first job as an extra in a Kreuger-financed film). Up to this time, Kreuger was an aggressive industrialist, but not the dishonest manipulator he later became. Yet he was in the grip of a grandiose passion-to make and sell every match in the world. He had always thought of himself as a superman, and in 1922 he had a superidea. He would personally shore up the tottering, post-World War I governments of Europe with loans, in return for match monopolies...
...Hearings "Few, if any, of us doubt," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, explaining the Eisenhower Middle East resolution before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, "that it would be a major disaster if that area were to fall into the grip of international Communism ... No single formula will solve all the problems of the Middle East. They will have to be attacked in a variety of ways . . . But the evolution of events now requires us to add this new element to reinforce our other actions in the area...
Track coach Bill McCurdy has added cotton gloves to his team's equipment. The gloves enable his relay men to spot their receivers more easily and to keep a better grip on the baton, the mentor feels...
...idea first occured to McCurdy at a Yale football practice session. "The pigskin was wet, but the fellows kept a surprisingly firm grip on the ball. They were wearing white gloves." McCurdy, however, has the Crimson's gloves dyed crimson to make the receiver's hand easy to spot...
From Berlin to Sofia, Russia's satellites were in the grip of a new crisis last week as the political upheaval of past months took its toll on their carefully coordinated economies. With industrial production in Hungary cut 75% by weeks of revolt and strikes, the Communist Government announced mass dismissals of industrial workers and government employees. East Germany's Red leaders arrived in Moscow to ask Russian aid for the faltering East German economy. In Warsaw the Polish government set up a 25-man "brain trust" to grapple with Poland's serious economic ills. All three...