Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's other big games, Ohio State tightened its grip on Rose Bowl tickets by pounding Purdue, 28-6. To cinch the Big Ten title, the Buckeyes still have to get by once-beaten Michigan, which slammed Michigan State, 33-7. With its seventh Big Seven title in sight, Oklahoma knocked Missouri out of the running...
...after eight years and one month of his sentence, No. 3 could barely see because of the cataracts in his eyes. Afternoons he worked in the prison gardens where occasionally his angina pectoris would grip his chest so that he would cry out and sink stiffly to the ground. A waiting guard would rush forward, break a Trinitrin capsule under his nose and the old man would get up and go back to work...
...from dark was the future of Strongman Batista. His newly won badge of electoral legitimacy was badly tarnished, but it was better than none, and his already firm grip on Cuba was now even firmer...
...expressed their willingness to negotiate with the British for the continuation of the military bases. And the U.N. voted in September to undertake control of any election, should the British allow it. Britain must realize it is no longer the Imperial power of old, and that relaxation of its grip on Cyprus will best serve its national interests and the free world's defense of Europe...
...Memphis' Shelby County when he was elected mayor at 35, moved into state politics in the '205. From 1930 (when the stock-market crash removed his last rival) until Estes Kefauver's successful insurrection in 1948, he ruled Tennessee politics with a benevolent but despotic grip, faithfully delivered, election in and election out, 60,000-vote majorities to his hand-picked candidates. White-maned Boss Crump, with a grandpappy grin and an eloquent gift for invective (he once said that an opponent would "milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence"), gave Memphis...