Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congressman Torby Macdonald's suggestion that the Government finance a five-month training camp for the summer Olympic team is as misunderstood as it is well-meaning. In a small way, it demonstrates the grip on the American mind held by big-time athletics...
...Cleary holds the lead among Ivy Hockey League scorers as of Feb. 21, with six goals and five assists for a total of 11 points in five games. In league standings, the Crimson holds a firm grip on first place with a 5-0 record. Yale and Brown are second with 3-1 and 3-3 records respectively...
...Like many of his kind, he is crushed beneath the upper millstone of parvenu wealth (which he despises) and the nether millstone of the privileged working class, symbolized by a State housing development which will take from him his mortgaged home. Gleave is in the grip of the constant, twitching fear that he and his family will fall into the anonymous abyss of "the proles." His wife has to do the cooking! Gleave is offered a job in commerce at five times his Foreign Office pay, but the offer is made by a "gutter imp" whose wife has the wrong...
...from killing the romance, this edict merely makes Amrita and Hari hold hands tighter in the corridors of the radio station. What finally loosens the young lovers' grip, and how, takes up the rest of this first novel. It also gives 28-year-old Novelist R. Prawer Jhabvala, Polish wife of a Hindu architect and a resident of India for the past five years, her chance to fashion a deft comedy of manners and values. Allowing for an Indian sea change, her moral is essentially Herman Wouk's-that one's cultural heritage is not a vise...
...heavy-weight. Country pastor's doctor says he has a year to live; country pastor has beautiful daughter who needs piano lessons in London; country pastor has no money, but takes brave anti-orthodox stand which costs him higher-paid job; wife steals needed money, he returns it; in grip of death, country pastor finds new meaning in life...