Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that he dissipates enough foot pounds of energy to drive his Ford for 23.7 miles, this poor creature will not heed the new apostle of emancipation. Wild visions of embarrassment in engulfing soup and dismantling chicken wings, and horrible pictures of ice-coated whiskers tighten his grip on the instrument of degradation, as the fettered slaye renews each day the heardless symbol of forsaken manhood...
Alexander Kerensky, head of the Provisional Government that ruled Russia immediately before the Bolshevik coup in 1917, declared in Berlin, where he lives in exile, that Russia is in the grip of that apocalyptic horseman, Famine. Said he: "It is not to be wondered at that, in a Province where the harvest is officially recognized as insufficient, peasants are pillaging trains loaded with wheat and eat a mixture of the bark of trees and horse refuse. Famine, unpitying and inexorable, is drawing ever nearer in the country districts of Russia. This time an American relief association will not come...
...clique of dramatists, no matter of what complexion, to dominate the colleges. In a recent report upon the "Freedom of Teaching in Science, presented before the American Association of University Professors, it was shown beyond all doubt that the one-eyed pedant, Intolerance, is tightening his grip upon American education...
...clever hoax, highly remunerative to its perpetrators, has dissolved this shadowiest of empires. In Germany the menacing standards of nationalism and anti-Semitism have been buried under a blizzard of hostile ballots. Even in Italy, a home of unreflective national passions, the Fascists are relaxing their grip...
...first, but Rhodes went in with them. Soon he controlled a huge combination ? De Beers Mining Co., British South Africa Co. and Gold Fields of South Africa Co. He became Prime Minister of the Cape Town Colony, which he governed as a benevolent despot, even strengthening the British grip on lower Africa with a vision in his head of "Africa British, from Cape Town to Cairo...