Word: grips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that, the shipowners determined to break Bridges' 18-year grip on the West Coast. They withdrew their offers, and took the position that they could not negotiate at all so long as Bridges and other Maritime Union chiefs refused to sign the Taft-Hartley law's non-Communist affidavit. The owners showed every sign of being prepared to sit it out until Bridges was busted. Bridges had the choice of eating crow or explaining to his members why they should continue a strike which had cost them more than $5,000,000 in wages...
...year-old boy described it as "a pretend chimney with monkeys." Vigeland put it differently: "The monolith is my religion." Most observers think that he was trying to show humanity struggling upward, but since he never explained, it is also possible that he intended to show humanity losing its grip...
...alive-not even Stalin-knew the answer. No one had a grip on all the main factors in the equation. Some men, however, knew much more than others; and some answers were much better than others. Last week a survey of the best sources of information in the non-Communist world yielded some hard facts, some pertinent speculation and some cautious conclusions about the chances...
Although he bases his work on statistics, Bean does not lose his grip on the realities of U.S. politics. He admits that a Democratic victory could be averted if a Third Party took four to eight percent of the popular vote away from the Democrats without cutting the G.O.P. vote, or if a depression set in strongly by Nov. 2. He hints at the possibility of a Republican victory with something less than a majority of the popular vote--an alternative as yet unvoiced in the press. But with the other hand he holds out the key to a possible...
...devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair...