Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...define as a shortage of available capital to meet the demands of an expanding economy, is not a peculiar phenomenon of the great American boom. As gauged by interest rates, the U.S. actually has easier money than 23 other major nations. The entire free world is caught in the grip of an unparalleled capital shortage that threatens to crimp the expansion plans of businessmen from Bonn to Bombay...
Since January, Eastland had kept the Administration bill in a tight committee grip. Meanwhile, the House went ahead with its own version, beat off Southern attempts to enfeeble it with amendments (TIME, June 24), finally last week passed it by a vote of 286 to 126. By the usual procedure, under Senate Rule 25, the House's bill seemed headed for the Eastland committee. But California's Minority Leader William F. Knowland was ready with a fast parliamentary ploy: he invoked 80-year-old Rule 14, under which a member can request that a House-passed measure...
Reaching Hands. The static line was hopeless. Next the aircraft crewmen put out a rope. Flugum grabbed it, and they pulled him three feet toward safety before the force of the airstream loosened his grip. They lowered the rope again, and Flugum tied it around his waist. Then, through a sweating two hours, the crewmen inched Flugum up with rope and static line. Finally he was at the hatch, his elbows almost in. A crewman seized each hand, a third grabbed at his fatigues. Flugum could not help himself, the sweat-slick hands of the rescuers could not hold...
...Florence was in the grip of an epidemic of colds, coughs and fevers, astrologers . . . declared that it was caused by the influence of an unusual conjunction of planets. This sickness . . . came gradually to be known as "influenza." -Chronicles of a Florentine Family...
...Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Behn stretched his communications empire from Antwerp to Osaka, steered it through 34 years of war, revolution, boom and bust, and boom again. Always somehow able to snatch cash from disaster, he had a secret: a skill at diplomacy that few foreign ministers could match, a grip on his company that only a last tycoon could keep...