Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troubles of Europe," he snapped, "will reach their climax during 1938 and 1939, and in the meantime our Government's three-year arms program is hopelessly in arrears. . . . The Baldwin Government is suffering from paralysis of phlegmatic composure. It has no grip, no driving force, no mental energy, no power of decision...
Sitting down to compose his resignation from the Socialist Party, the Hosiery Workers' President Emil Rieve cried: "Black reaction would grip the country if Roosevelt is not returned to the White House...
...Chamberlain and Mr. Eden jointly lavished their best efforts, "Augur" charged that this was last week in course of being knifed by Sir Samuel Hoare & friends as a blow at the Chancellor's chances of becoming Prime Minister. Concluded "Augur": "Mr. Baldwin seems to have lost his grip on the situation entirely. Unless he becomes active soon and stages a comeback the outcry against him in the ranks of the party and among the public generally may become overwhelming...
Caught in the grip of a flood problem that has vexed mankind since pre-historic times, Mr. Westcott and his much-lampooned kitchen fell victim last week to the sinister power that is sour milk. Science, with all its starry array of meat-choppers, lemon-peelers, and assembly lines for manufacturing potatoes an gratin, had no way to tell of the fallibility of the bovine world till the crescendo of sensitive student's protest reached a revolutionary shout. A system so mechanically perfect, yet so hard and insensitive to the demands of the taste buds, has lived too long with...
Getting a grip on himself, the President's third son presently calmed down, posed, remarked: "It's not you I try to dodge- it's the columnists I don't like!"* Then, angrily denying their engagement, he finally reached the girl he had been so frantic to see again - blonde Ethel du Pont, niece of President Roosevelt's bitter antagonist, Liberty Leaguer Irénée du Pont...