Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although there were a number of more perceptive blacks who sensed a new direction was needed, they were cowed into silence as the old guard struggled to keep its hold, finally losing its grip on black students thinking after they prevented whites from attending a speech by Ms. W.E.B. Du Bois at Sanders Theater during the 1970-71 school year, Ms. DuBois denounced the students' actions, and it became clear that the old black leadership had outlived its day. At the next Afro-election, a member of the Class of '74--the first class not present at the University Hall...
...eating so much that she has gained almost 50 lbs. She is reacting to the fact that her family blames her for the death of her younger sister; floating downstream while clinging to the child, the teen-ager slammed into a railroad track, was injured and lost her grip on her sister...
...Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward, the statement conveys the fatalism that many people feel about the congeries of diseases called cancer. One out of every four Americans can expect to develop the disease during his lifetime. Despite this toll, there is evidence that the crab's grip is at last being loosened...
...course, the House never made an honest investigation of the SEC charges: Mutscher and his men maintained too tight a grip for that to happen. However, Mutscher did lose the speakership, and was convicted of the bribery charges. He got a suspended sentence. Smith was never brought to trial...
Sert had not kept a tight rein on the different departments, and some observers attribute the internal squabbling about Gund Hall to Sert's lack of control. Kilbridge, however, keeps a firm grip on the various factions, a policy that induced three GSD professors to bring grievance charges against him in early 1971. So the design firm had to content not only with usual production delays, but with the shaks at the GSD itself...