Word: grips
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...maneuvering was carefully planned, and showed a cunning recognition of ways to achieve substantial effects in the West with means-a dismantled frontier gate, the freeing of a William Oatis-which neither cost them much nor relaxed their grip on power. It was all neatly timed: the French were fumbling in disorder; Sir Winston Churchill talked nostalgically of "a new Locarno"; the U.S. Administration, still trying to come to grips with the realities of responsibility, was pinned between the belief that it must seize the initiative from Moscow and the fear that it is not smart enough to avoid falling...
...over the radio that Biltz gouged him in the clinches in his unsuccessful Senate race with Republican George ("Molly") Malone, a good many Nevadans just didn't quite follow him. When Mechling charged that Biltz was a sinister political boss, who held the state in a "Gestapo-like grip" and stifled the state's press, most were just flabbergasted. Nevada seems like the last place in the world any self-respecting political boss would enter the bossing business...
...political grip is neither Gestapo-like nor especially sinister, but he quietly exercises a kind of all-embracing, behind-the-scenes influence which has largely vanished from more-complicated areas of the country. Though Biltz is a Republican, crusty old Democratic Senator Pat Mc-Carran communes with him from Washington almost daily by long-distance telephone. Nevada's bumbling G.O.P. Senator Malone is beholden to him. And Biltz hand-picked Nevada's Governor Charles Russell. As a result, Nevada's big gamblers (who are also big campaign contributors) listen when Biltz whispers, for the gover nor appoints...
...Indonesians like to call themselves "The Children of the East." Their cultural values were formed during a thousand years of Brahminist-Buddhist teaching, culminating in the great, 14th century Hindu-Javanese civilization of Madjapahit. Then came the swift, peaceful penetration of Islam. Securing a firm but gentle grip on the islands (Indonesia is now the world's largest Moslem nation), Islam took on a subtle duality. Moslem mosques assumed Hindu temple forms; followers were called to prayer on Oriental gongs. While putting on the cloak of Islam, the Indonesians remained essentially Eastern; nor has their character changed under...
Keeping a firm grip on their squirming pug, Trooper, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor bantered merrily with newsmen aboard the S.S. United States as they prepared to sail for a summer's holiday in France. No, said the Duke, he would not see the coronation of his niece. They were on their way to Paris before slipping down to Versailles, where they are converting an old mill into a suburban hideaway...