Word: grips
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...Iron Grip. In the new cold war struggle, said Dulles, the strengths of Communism are bound up in its iron grip upon nearly 1 billion people, enabling Communism to squeeze the great bulk of its resources into armaments and political-economic offensives. But the weaknesses of Communism are also bound up in that iron grip, above all in the restless demand of subject peoples for freedom of thought and freedom to buy more consumer goods. This is why the U.S. has been trying to base its cold war policies upon 1) "everpresent and ever-alert retaliatory power to deter Soviet...
...begun to campaign openly for the Ohio Republican nomination for governor, ex-Senator George Bender, now an aide in the Department of the Interior, abruptly bowed out. Behind-the-scenes reason: ex-Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, now board chairman of National Steel and the man with a firm grip on Ohio G.O.P. purse-strings, told Bender that the party was reasonablysatisfied with Republican Incumbent C. William O'Neill, could not standa bitter primary fight...
...plane. As they cleared out, a company of British troops flew in from Jamaica and a frigate steamed in from Bermuda to stand guard with local police. A militant Negro labor union had frozen sunny Nassau with a general strike, aimed at breaking the white minority's grip on political power...
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Jan. 19--Breaking out of a tie in the last three minutes, the Syracuse Nationals beat the New York Knickerbockers today, 112-108, maintaining their grip on second place in the Eastern Division...
...they rarely stop to court an insight. Three unhurried tourists currently grace the book counters with travel accounts that are wise, witty and uncommonly well-written. Laving their individual sensibilities in the "implacable light" of the Mediterranean littoral, these writers perceive and share the region's Antaeus-like grip on life for life's sake...