Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tariffs. With the Sales Tax out of the way, the La Guardia-Doughton coalition dissolved and the House, exhausted by long sessions, depleted by grip, began casting about for other means to raise a Budget-balancing half billion dollars. First moves were...
...Guerre. In 1890 he was summoned to the General Staff at the Ministry of War. Here the dream of revanche took strategical form. "Adopting the offensive as the essential form of action, Foch's sequence of action was, first, to feel for one's enemy, then to grip him, finally to 'strike one supreme stroke on one point,' using one's reserves 'as a club'. . . This theory, essentially mechanistic or mathematical, was too simple for truth...
While Japan was tightening its grip on Manchuria last week, a baldish, blue- whiskered dissolute Russian scoundrel-brigand was plotting to tear another strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...
...with a master ship builder who yearns for an heir to carry on the great work of six generations of Trumbulls. The heir comes, a precocious, spindle legged little child who dies because his father forced him along too fast. The elder Trumbull becomes embittered, loses his grip, and meets disaster upon disaster, until at the end his despised daughter guides him into the paths of truth. This is the sort of thing that can be, and has been, done well, but never by the movies. It requires a delicacy of touch, a sympathy of treatment which Hollywood has seldom...
Lawyer Drummond has kept sane in the midst of her bewildering subject by keeping a tight grip on her sense of humor. She calls attention to a Kentucky case in which "a separation due to the wife's refusal to cohabit at all with her spouse is metaphorically described as 'an unfortunate failure to guide the marital craft into the port of happiness.' " If you like cider you may be pleased to learn that habitual use of it, not amounting to habitual drunkenness, is not grounds for divorce in New Hampshire...