Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next: 1) an open convention, on Oct. 118, of the entire All-India Congress Party-at Nehru's demand-to ratify his election to party chief; 2) a battle to the finish with Tandon, who still has a grip on the party machine, is no man to quit without a fight...
Twenty-four hours later, the druggist was stricken again, this time less severely. The druggist's wife came down with the same symptoms; so did his three children. More patients fell ill. Dr. Risser got six frantic calls in one day. By mid-August, Bonham was in the grip of an epidemic. The cases were all the same: two swift, polio-like attacks followed by rapid recovery. Dr. Risser, a former Army epidemiologist, consulted his medical books, wrote the U.S. Public Health Service that Bonham had been hit by epidemic pleurodynia ("devil's grip"), probably caused...
...Fact of Peace." In general, the U.S. had no nerves about whatever delays and charges Gromyko & Co. might be brewing at Hillsborough. Before the President flew in from Washington to make his inaugural speech at the conference, the State Department took a firm grip on the events of this week. "One definite prediction can be made," said a State Department estimate of the situation. "In a matter of days the treaty will have been signed by so many allied powers . . . that there will be no doubt in any quarter as to the fact of peace or the terms of peace...
Around the Caribbean, where some governments change violently and others never seem to change at all, little Costa Rica (pop. 800,875) has the firmest grip on democracy. Its citizens like their Presidents elected, their press free, their schools strong. They feel no need for an army but will rise in arms when they must. A citizen army, under Coffee Planter Jose Figueres, fought in 1948 to stop a scheming government from keeping an elected President, Otilio Ulate, out of office. Figueres won handily, and, as promised, turned the government back to Ulate. Since then, President Ulate...
...steal the show-from Producer-Director Stevens, whose firm grip is on every foot of A Place in the Sun. Stevens' unerring timing, and his skill at filling any situation with the last shade of emotion and meaning, enable him to direct the picture at a deliberately slow pace that still weaves a spell without dragging for a moment...