Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caucuses and county conventions. They had routed the Taftmen and carried the day for Ike. But the Old Guard, behind National Committeeman Harry Zweifel, had bolted, held its own rump sessions, and named slates of pro-Taft delegates in the 31 counties. Zweifel & Co. desperately wanted to keep their grip on their "private-club" Republican organization, which they had controlled for years. Although every Ikeman had signed a Zweifel-designed Republican pledge, the Old Guard charged they were Democrats and Independents in disguise, just "one-night Republicans...
...exports were going to British ports. But the heyday of the British merchants began after the Suez Canal was opened, with steam packets pushing the sailing clippers off the seas. It lasted until the Sino-Japanese War, which followed by World War II, shook loose the British grip on China. But in 1946 Jardine's had regained 50% of the tea trade...
Although most newspapers have devoted a good deal of front page space to the spreading epidemic of student disturbances in New England and vicinity, they have failed to note an attending disease which seems to grip university presidents every time the riot squad is called in. Yale's Griswold, for instance, ostentatiously ate crow after the ice cream riot at New Haven and MIT's Killian apologized profusely for the recent melee around Radcliffe...
...pack my grip, and go home" before the Cambridge Elks Club, but becomes...
...varsity baseball team split a doubleheader with Yale at New Haven Saturday, with the result that Stuffy McInnis' nine remained in fourth place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball Laegue standings and the Elis maintained their grip on the cellar. The Crimson won the first game, 11-7, with an eight-run explosion in the seventh inning, and then dropped the nightcap, 2-0, before the superb two-hit pitching of right-hander Chris Emerson...