Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each. But before he became the darling of the cloak-and-swagger set, Author Shellabarger, a onetime Princeton professor, wrote sober-sided biographies. One of these. Lord Chesterfield and His World, published in Britain in 1935, is making a belated U.S. bow. Scholarly Author Shellabarger has taken a firm grip on a slippery subject: a man with the moral instincts of a chameleon and the temperament of an icicle...
...Goodson & Todman have always been great trend riders. When they specialized in radio they had half-a-dozen giveaway shows. Todman's talent for giveaways was epitomized by Goodman Ace, who once encountered him rushing to a studio with an armful of aluminum ware. When Todman lost his grip on one of the pots & pans, Ace called to him: "Hey, you dropped your script...
...administrative and disciplinary focus, last Tuesday's faculty resolution includes among the new Senior Tutor's jobs that of co-ordinating tutorial and departmental advising. This is so vague that the leaders of the five largest departments, who have been ominously muttering about departmental sovereignty, could easily maintain their grip on tutorial, a grip that in the past has often led to neglect of undergraduates...
...crowds often became ugly and began shoving. But the two people returned every Sunday. They could not break the grip Father Feeney had on the heart of their girl...
Among his new responsibilities will be that of keeping a firm grip on the new and aggressive alumni program to recruit students without buying them. He must see to it that the present clean admissions policy is not perverted in the execution...