Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fingernail grip on Broadway in the Theatre Guild's Garrick Gaieties, and was seen briefly in a 1931 flop called Company's Coming. But Broadway, like everything else, was sliding into the Depression. Drawing on all her confidence and energy, Ros got a job with Wee & Leventhal, who operated a cut-rate theatrical circuit covering such Broadway outposts as Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia. Her salary was $45 a week, but she more than doubled it by playing better pinochle than Producer Leventhal on their inter-city train rides...
Since it was established in 1946, Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy has been an effective board of directors for the U.S. atomic-energy program. But in the ten weeks of the 83rd Congress, the committee (nine Senators, nine Representatives) has been losing its grip. The reason: a Senate v. House deadlock over the chairmanship...
Then fell the news of Stalin's mortal stroke. Republican leaders grabbed it as a chance to avert a partisan brawl. The resolution, said Taft, was not worth a big fight. The Administration began studying ways more effective than resolutions to weaken the Communist grip on the slave nations...
Their opposition is based on two arguments. First they say that controls in general are useless, and deny the need for them even in wartime. N.A.M. chief Charles R. Sligh gave the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to believe that corporation taxes and like measures would keep a grip on the inflation spiral. Senator Capchart, no friend of government control, answered by saying that Congress would surely pass controls on "wages, prices, and rents in event of an all-out shooting war." And they are obviousy needed then. The Federal Reserve Board, which under normal conditions sways price trends...
Based on a Gogol story, The Marriage is a comedy about a reluctant bachelor in the grip of a marriage broker. Martinu's score is lighthearted and craftsmanlike, though it contains no particularly memorable music. The production itself comes across as first-rate entertainment, thanks in good part to the collaboration of Composer Martinu and energetic, talented Peter Herman Adler, 53, director of NBC's television opera program...