Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Premier Guy Mollet hesitated between proclaiming a cease-fire outright as a starter and continuing secret efforts to talk the rebels into a cease-fire agreement, terror tightened its grip on Algeria. Much of the terror was to influence the vote. Halfway through an afternoon of football, bombs exploded simultaneously in two packed stadiums on opposite sides of Algiers, killing twelve and wounding 60. A father bent in horror over the headless body of his 20-year-old daughter. A Moslem candy vendor stared at the mangled form of his helper, took off running with his case of sweets...
...controlling credit, raw materials and retail prices, the government still plans to keep a firm grip on the country's economy: its concessions are more from necessity than from any coherent new economic philosophy...
...grip tightened under each of my arms, and I felt my toes dragging toward the door...
...cheer that went from end to end of the army." There is a Union soldier in besieged Chattanooga reflecting that the antagonisms between eastern and western Federal troops often seemed greater than those that separated North and South. And there is Union General George McClellan in the grip of his "numbers" madness, unwilling to attack the inferior forces of Lee because of his persistent conviction that he was faced by hundreds of thousands of non-existent Rebels...
...first fall came in 2:40 of the first period of the 137-lb. bout, when Bob Cook, already holding a five to nothing point advantage, caught Penn's Dennie Hurley in a half nelson with crotch grip...