Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the radio that Biltz gouged him in the clinches in his unsuccessful Senate race with Republican George ("Molly") Malone, a good many Nevadans just didn't quite follow him. When Mechling charged that Biltz was a sinister political boss, who held the state in a "Gestapo-like grip" and stifled the state's press, most were just flabbergasted. Nevada seems like the last place in the world any self-respecting political boss would enter the bossing business...
...feeling of importance he has given the working class. Perón is still able to convince his descamisados that he is running the country for them alone. Perón tightly controls the 4,000,000-member General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.). Should he ever lose his grip on the C.G.T., he would be done for. But so far, there are no signs that he will...
...army, a successful military coup, while always a possibility, looks highly unlikely at the moment. In recent weeks some of Perón's bitterest enemies-students and sons of wealthy ranchers-have tried to blast loose Perón's grip by setting off 15 homemade bombs in Buenos Aires. They gave Perón a real scare; police seized 25 machine guns, 600 rifles and pistols, more than a ton of explosives. But Perón, who blamed the bombings on foreigners and evil capitalists, once more seems firmly in the saddle...
Keeping a firm grip on their squirming pug, Trooper, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor bantered merrily with newsmen aboard the S.S. United States as they prepared to sail for a summer's holiday in France. No, said the Duke, he would not see the coronation of his niece. They were on their way to Paris before slipping down to Versailles, where they are converting an old mill into a suburban hideaway...
...because I was nothing." In the end, the hero hardly knows whether he is sorrier that he can't go home again or that he once left. By clenching his writing fist in melodramatic symbols and seizures at his own riddle, Author Pavese loses his grip on the realities he writes best about: the sun-drenched Italian soil and a small boy's growing pains...