Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until dark, then sped to the home of old Aly Maher, four times a Premier and a master of Egypt's political meteorology, to talk some more. Late that night, Aly Maher called in the press and announced that Nasser and his Revolutionary Command Council were relaxing their grip and would gradually turn Egypt toward parliamentary rule. The timetable: in June, the election of a 250-man Constituent Assembly; in July, an Assembly meeting to ratify a new constitution; by January 1956, free elections for a new democratic Parliament. The R.C.C. said it will then fade away...
...Harris ran into stormy weather with the board. About 25% of Northwest's common stock is owned by Wertheim & Co., or held for customers of two New York brokerage firms, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, and Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co. They have a tight grip on the board. But Harris felt they were less interested in long-range plans than in the quick resumption of dividend payments that would increase the market value of their common stock. To the board's distress, the stock sank lower under Harris, from 14½ in January 1953 to a year...
...horrors grip the student so much as the discovery of a reserve book in his room at noon. Once trapped with an eight dollar fine, he is apt to think of all librarians as dusty financiers practicing free enterprise at his expense. Though a few defects and injustices have beset Lamont's heavy fine system in the past, only some penalty could prevent students from hoarding scarce books. Furthermore, a fund was necessary to replace those copies which have somehow disappeared during the year. A revised schedule of fines, to be tried this spring, will do much to improve...
...anyone who was listening, Berlin proved one thing: Russia has no intention of yielding her grip on Germany−now or at any time in the foreseeable future. Hope of agreement died early in Berlin; the West must now press ahead with its long-postponed needs, chief among them German rearmament...
Shell wants to go deeper and drill other wells around Eagle Springs' perimeter before it claims a big field. But Nevada was already in the grip of an oil fever. By week's end, some 2,000,000 acres had been filed on, bringing more than $1,000,000 into Reno's land office...