Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirkland's basketball team took a firmer grip on first place in the A League last night by trampling Eliot 49 to 31, for its seventh straight win, Eliot never was in the game as the Deacons teamwork defense and fast-breaking attack completely outclassed the last-place Elephants...
This week, González was expected to name a new cabinet of career public servants. It was still too early to tell how seriously the "chain" had weakened his grip on the government. But the week's events had made one thing clear: González could no longer pull himself through by crying "Red plot!" He would have to find some immediate way of easing the burden of inflation for the working classes. If he failed, González' government-and Chile's democracy-would be in danger...
...success-the army-turned into disappointment. He discovered that he could not live on his subaltern's pay, ?250 a year. He quit the army in 1899 after taking part in the last old-style cavalry charge, the one in which Kitchener at Omdurman fastened Britain's grip on the Sudan. He ran for Parliament from Oldham, and was beaten...