Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quietly effective defense of Navy abilities, the new CNO quickly restored order and confidence. The newest member of the J.C.S. (replacing Admiral Denfeld, who was sacked in the unification row), he quickly proved himself its ablest member, a well-trained professional fighting man who also had a grip of world politics unmatched by any of his associates...
Prime Minister Nehru has lost his grip on the Indian Congress Party, the power, now crumbling, that led the fight for Indian independence. With common enemy and common purpose gone, the party has turned flabby and corrupt. Its new strong man is Purushottamdas Tandon, a bearded lawyer who looks like a Hindu holy man and acts like a Tammany boss. A right-winger, he controls the party machine and the political bosses whom Nehru has nei, ther time nor inclination to pay much attention to. Last month a group of Nehru's left-wing followers seceded from the Congress...
...soldiers butchered thousands of Haitians who had settled on Dominican land near the Haitian border. The massacre made the regime so unpopular with other American governments that Trujillo decided to "retire" for a while, installed a puppet President for the 1938-42 term. * But the Benefactor's dictatorial grip remained as tight as ever...
...people who disagreed about a painting, where the one said, 'That's beautiful,' and the other said, 'I don't see it.'...We think him blind, whereas he thinks us credulous... and what we call doing justice to the facts he calls the grip on us of settled routines or inertia...
...Wednesday, Stoughton staved off a late-game rally by Mallinckrodt to win their third straight game, 11-9, and strengthen its grip on first place in the league. Also on Wednesday, Thayer came from behind with three runs in the last inning to hand Holworthy its second one-run defeat...