Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zealand (pop. 1,850,000) lives by her seaborne trade. But for 16 years New Zealand's ports had been in the grip of the Communist-led Wraterside Workers' Union. * When the Cominform signaled a stepped-up cold war against the democracies four years ago, the union's headlock on New Zealand trade quickly slipped into a stranglehold...
...important for the West to watch these signs in Communist China; it is equally important for the West not to overestimate them. For decades similar evidence has come out of Soviet Russia; yet through mass killings, violent social upheaval and economic crises the Soviet regime has kept its death grip on the country. China's Red masters may be in for plenty of trouble (and if the U.S. chooses, it can increase that trouble). But it is a fact that the Communists in China have under their control today one-fifth of the human race; they have succeeded...
When a cheering crowd finally let him leave the green after 30 minutes, Chapman explained how he had finally broken his jinx: "I owe it all to Ben Hogan. He taught me to shift my right hand and cured me of hooking my irons. I changed my grip just before I came over here." Added beaming Dick Chapman: "I've been waiting a long time to say this is the happiest day of my life...
...will, a pretty wife, and perhaps a few funny stories. Potter, product of an older and more cynical order, is convinced that all social intercourse is in fact a merciless jungle struggle, where the weaker will be gobbled up like an anchovy canape by the man with the firmer grip on the conversation and the Martini glass. In his scholarly The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, or the Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Evolutionist Potter brought this insight to bear on sport; in Some Notes on Lifemanship, which might well be subtitled...
...Eastern Counties," and his dimwit daughter, Mavis Peasmarch. There is Freddie Widgeon, "a pretty clear-thinking chap [who] realized that you can't go strewing babies all over the place"; and Horace Bewstridge, an indomitable golfer who "clasped [Vera Witherby] to his bosom, using the interlocking grip...