Word: grips
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crimson wrestlers took a stronger grip on fourth place in Ivy standings Saturday when they defeated Brown, 19 to 11. Harvard picked up five wins, losing only three matches and tying...
...Break the Grip. The postscript session riled the frustrated young Kennedy "pragmatic liberals," and they prodded Sam Rayburn to do something about Judge Smith. By the time Congress convened again after the election, Speaker Rayburn had made up his mind that he had to break Smith's grip on the Rules Committee...
...greater authority to carry out reforms in such complex fields as civil rights, government reorganization, etc. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, for example, plans a massive attack on organized crime-but will limit his requests for congressional assistance to matters of money and manpower. Until he can tighten his grip on the Congress, with all its factions, the President will urge only a limited number of "vital" bills, such as federal aid for school construction and more money for federally assisted housing. Explained one Cabinet member: "The controversial stuff can come later. That's what Franklin Roosevelt...
...Republican enemy only a few months before the election. Last month, with a Democratic President about to take office, Rayburn made up his mind that in the interests of party responsibility and party control of Congress, he was going to have to loosen Judge Smith's grip on the Rules Committee...
Unfortunately, the Mayflower's pace as well as its passengers has a grip on Author Amory's latest book, and it is a poky chronicle compared with his The Proper Bostonians and The Last Resorts. He drops some 7,000 names. He delves into 27 tribal histories and relates them unsparingly, from the Adamses and Cabots to the Astors and Vanderbilts, not omitting the Byrds. For the rest, scandal vies with sociology, gossip with anecdote. The anecdotes, though frequently familiar, provide most of the fun, and in some of them Amory captures certain archetypal stances of social eliteism...