Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches asserted that outside of Damascus the French forces held a secure grip upon only six cities on the railway between Aleppo in the North and Dera in the South. The Druses were said to be in control of an area as large as the state of New Jersey between Mount Hermon and Wadi Ajami. At Aleppo Miss Elizabeth Sill of Pittsburgh, in charge of the local Near East Relief, was reported to have been appealed to for help and protection by literally thousands of refugees...
...examined dressing gown and slippers, decorated her face, wrists and ankles with luminous paint, and placed her hands in those of an observer in the darkened room. An electric current was passed through the bodies of all the observers so that if any one broke his neighbor's grip, a bell would ring. Despite these and other "laboratory test" conditions, Margery was able to summon "Walter" (her brother, killed in an accident), who whistled, cracked jokes, pulled the professors by their forelocks, bantered them, played checkers with (and beat) one of them, lifted weights (a corresponding increase in Margery...
Spanish troops in Morocco occupied themselves last week with the task of strengthening their grip upon Ajdir, onetime capital of Abd-el-Krim, and consolidating Spanish positions which now dominate practically the whole vicinity...
...grip of the play on sentimental and therefore large portions of the public cannot be denied. Alexander Woollcott put his discerning finger on the secret when he called the play a great love story. That it undoubtedly is, and as such must gain an inevitable and not unmerited popularity. But Mr. Arlen is not dealing in a new, smart medium as the world believes. It is love and sacrifice that makes The Green Hat good entertainment; not wit and glittering philosophy...
...Significance. Channeled and sped by a masterful artist, the intense lives of Leah and Eli deepen into profound currents that bear all the sorrows of their tragic, ritual-fed race. The rocks that split them, darkly inevitable, grip into the beds of their courses with roots that were when first men and women searched their souls. Told in fierce words and gentle, dull words and shining, words sweet as wild honey, words bitter as black gall-here is a Book...