Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers' streets and docksides and pitheads, there was no man who could stir the wind and grip the emotion like Welshman Bevan...
...Dodgers proved that they could still get into a pickle occasionally. Smokey's heavy-hitting outfielder, Carl Furillo, had just explained how his golfing technique helped his baseball: "I've done two things: I've changed my grip, and now I hold my neck rigid so I keep my eye on the ball." In Chicago Carl had to take a day off: stiff neck. Then the Dodgers lost to the Cubs 10-8. That robbed the Giants of their only current distinction: until that game, only the Giants had beaten the Dodgers this season...
...Mandate? But Avery angrily turned down the deal. When the annual meeting publicly exposed Avery's slipping grip and Corporation Secretary John Barr had to take over the gavel, the five directors knew they could wait no longer. They decided that Avery must be replaced by up-and-coming John Barr. Also slated for ouster: Edmund Krider, 42, an ex-accountant picked as $76,000-a-year president by Avery in 1952, who was considered to possess Avery's ruthlessness without either his charm or ability. The directors tackled Avery again, suggested that having won over Wolfson...
...kind of man for whom even the term "liberal" is a reproach, and a sign of diluted vigor. Cavan commits suicide, but just as he was too intense to live, he is too intense to die. His friends cannot turn their eyes from his vision or pry his grip from their lives...
...last the first class of WAACs gathered at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. "More was learned about women's uniforms than had been discovered in the past six months of research . . . When WAACs walked or marched, the skirts climbed well above the knee unless a desperate grip on the skirt was substituted for the required arm swing. Shrieks of dismay arose as the women tried on the WAAC caps, uncharitably christened 'Hobby hats.' " It soon became apparent that the WAAC difficulties were far more serious than had at first been thought. Items...