Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warming to his subject and maintaining his lapel grip, Khrushchev launched an attack on "responsible people in the U.S." who "read tea leaves" and talk of Soviet weakness. Some people, he said, "ponder why the Soviet Union has made so many proposals that please the West." They seem to think that if the Soviet Union makes a good decision "there is something that forced it to make that decision, and even that the Soviet Union fears some catastrophe if it does not." Let me tell you, said Khrushchev, letting go of Walmsley's coat but grasping his arm instead...
Concessions. But Perón got back his grip only at the cost of at least one implicit concession. His knockdown battle with the church became a wary standoff, not even mentioned in his speech. Said Hugo di Pietro, Peronista labor boss: "This is a time for reconciliation. There will be no church issue." Though most priests still wore cautious mufti in the streets (Argentines vied in trying to spot them by their black socks and clumsily knotted neckties), some ventured boldly out in cassocks. Most of the arrested priests were hastily freed. The government sent policemen to guard churches...
...biggest nuisance in watching television is having to get out of the chair to switch stations. Last week Zenith Radio Corp. brought out a new set equipped with electric eyes, permitting the viewer to sit as far away as 20 ft. and control it with a special pistol-grip flashlight. By shooting the beam at one slot alongside the screen, he can turn the set on (and off): by aiming at a second slot, he can switch stations; by aiming at a third slot, he can turn off the sound. Cost about $75 more than conventional TV sets...
Spindletop took petroleum out of lamps and lubricants, put it into gas tanks and made it a source of cheap power. It cracked the coal's monopoly grip on fuel and Standard's grip on oil. Before Spindletop, Standard directly controlled 83% of America's annual 58 million barrels; a year later it was just another competitor. Spindletop gave birth to the entire Texas oil industry and to two of its giants: Texaco and Gulf...
Peck spoke on "Crisis in the Courts," which he claimed have "lagged in the grip of old forms and old ways," What he lamented particularly was "the cost and loss in economic and human terms of a court system which is excessively expensive and inordinately slow...