Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his three terms as Michigan's governor, Gerhard Mennen Williams has steadily tightened his grip on the state and its Democratic Party, despite his troubles with a Republican legislature and the opposition of old-line Democrats, who object to "Soapy" Williams' alliance with Walter Reuther's C.I.O. In last week's primary election, Soapy himself, unopposed for renomination, threw his strength behind Philip A. Hart, his candidate for lieutenant governor. Opposing Hart was ' onetime Democratic National Committeeman George S. Fitzgerald, attorney for Jimmy Hoffa's anti-Williams A.F.L. Teamsters' Union...
From Old Baldy to the Yalu, North Korea lies devastated by war and despondent in the grip of unchallenged Communism. Geneva proved that it is likely to stay that way. But amidst the ruins, according to the reports of neutral observers and Korean agents, a strange, unequal competition is going on between Russian and Chinese influence...
France is slowly but steadily losing her grip on her North African empire. Morocco has been in turmoil for a year. Until recently, nearby Tunisia was relatively quiet, but last spring nationalists began stirring in Tunisia. The nationalists were dissatisfied with the limited "reforms" offered by Resident General Pierre Voizard; they were enraged by the moving of exiled Habib Bourguiba, the anti-Communist leader of Tunisia's most powerful political group, the Neo-Destour
...ticket, well-known Republican Knight 1,083,733, little-known Democrat Richard Graves 104,683; on the Democratic ticket, Graves 791,777, Knight 667,375. The primary results indicated that the dual primary victories will become a rarity, but they did not show that the G.O.P. was losing its grip in California. Best proof: Knight's two-party total was the largest primary vote ever cast for a candidate for governor...
These Republican leaders of the midwest and Great Plains states plainly need to be explained to the rest of the nation. For though they have been four times repudiated at national Republican conventions, they have steadily strengthened their grip on the Senate. For the last twelve years, the Taft Republicans have formed the largest cohesive political group in the nation, exerting a powers beyond the population of the states they represent...