Word: grips
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...workers' streets and docksides and pitheads, there was no man who could stir the wind and grip the emotion like Welshman Bevan...
...kind of man for whom even the term "liberal" is a reproach, and a sign of diluted vigor. Cavan commits suicide, but just as he was too intense to live, he is too intense to die. His friends cannot turn their eyes from his vision or pry his grip from their lives...
...last week there were signs that the iron grip of the cartels has been slipping. The watch industry's own trade magazine, Schweizer Uhr, launched an attack in a front-page editorial titled "We Declare War." Said the magazine: The cartels, "euphemistically called associations," are "not keeping pace with economic trends and [are] abusing their strength and power to the detriment of our national economy." Noting that for months it had been receiving complaints from watchmakers about the rigid price fixing, the magazine said: "The cartels' management has won such power and independence that many of the members...
...last the first class of WAACs gathered at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. "More was learned about women's uniforms than had been discovered in the past six months of research . . . When WAACs walked or marched, the skirts climbed well above the knee unless a desperate grip on the skirt was substituted for the required arm swing. Shrieks of dismay arose as the women tried on the WAAC caps, uncharitably christened 'Hobby hats.' " It soon became apparent that the WAAC difficulties were far more serious than had at first been thought. Items...
...down after a low pitch," Al remembers now. "Then he told me something else which I think helped me even more. He told me how to keep in condition during the off season, by swinging heavy bats and keeping a rubber ball in my pocket to exercise my grip...