Word: grips
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...grip tightened under each of my arms, and I felt my toes dragging toward the door...
...flashbacks, Tully tells where the skids led him. As the comic, MC Hal March of The $64,000 Question gave a fine performance. Unfortunately, Tully's salvation, i.e., the love of a good woman, is almost as glib as his wisecracks. But thanks to Author Aurthur's grip on the character, the problem and the jangling atmosphere, TV's own version of a tired old theatrical and movie staple-the backstage story-proves in this case to have freshness and bite...
...cheer that went from end to end of the army." There is a Union soldier in besieged Chattanooga reflecting that the antagonisms between eastern and western Federal troops often seemed greater than those that separated North and South. And there is Union General George McClellan in the grip of his "numbers" madness, unwilling to attack the inferior forces of Lee because of his persistent conviction that he was faced by hundreds of thousands of non-existent Rebels...
...first fall came in 2:40 of the first period of the 137-lb. bout, when Bob Cook, already holding a five to nothing point advantage, caught Penn's Dennie Hurley in a half nelson with crotch grip...
Dartmouth has never beaten Harvard in squash recquets and would like to catch the Crimson, with two defeats in its last three matches, in the grip of a mid-season slump...