Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives today in the grip of great principles. The challenge to the free world is Communism-political, military and economic. This challenge dictates the major factors in the U.S. counterchallenge: 1) the U.S. must define clear attitudes on Communism which can be reflected in political and military policies; 2) it must prove the vitality of a political-economic system which both fortifies the free world and preserves the worth of the individual...
...victory tonight will give the Crimson an even tighter grip on the Pentagonal lead. While the remaining four teams in the League have been alternately beating each other, the varsity has twice downed Dartmouth and once topped Brown. Yale, with a 3-2 Pentagonal record is in second place...
...NATO experts regard the underground defenses of the Rock as secure as man can devise, and consider Gibraltar a vital point in the regulation of trade and supply routes to the Mediterranean. Solely on the basis of defense policy, the British have good reason to keep a tight grip on Gibraltar...
...third of the congressional seats and a quota of the Supreme Court and diplomatic missions. That has kept them quiet. Now 57, Tacho tells friends that he would like to take things easier, and he may be quite sincere about it. But the problem is how to loosen his grip without inviting an unseemly struggle for power, throwing innumerable relatives out of work and deflating the value of many of his properties. Most observers have concluded that he would try to keep the presidency in the family, turning it over to one of his two sons, Luis, now president...
...most vivid conflicts in the play are self-conflicts: Queeg's agonized attempts to keep a grip on his emotions, Greenwald's rigid determination to put a hood over his conscience. As Queeg, Lloyd Nolan plays brilliantly, is as self-revealing when still in control as when losing control. Henry Fonda's sober courtroom Greenwald is in fine contrast both to Queeg and to Greenwald drunk. The whole cast, from John Hodiak's Maryk on, is admirable: out of the stylized nature of the court-martial has been forged just the right style for a theater...