Word: grips
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Although most newspapers have devoted a good deal of front page space to the spreading epidemic of student disturbances in New England and vicinity, they have failed to note an attending disease which seems to grip university presidents every time the riot squad is called in. Yale's Griswold, for instance, ostentatiously ate crow after the ice cream riot at New Haven and MIT's Killian apologized profusely for the recent melee around Radcliffe...
...pack my grip, and go home" before the Cambridge Elks Club, but becomes...
...varsity baseball team split a doubleheader with Yale at New Haven Saturday, with the result that Stuffy McInnis' nine remained in fourth place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball Laegue standings and the Elis maintained their grip on the cellar. The Crimson won the first game, 11-7, with an eight-run explosion in the seventh inning, and then dropped the nightcap, 2-0, before the superb two-hit pitching of right-hander Chris Emerson...
...Oslo after the Red coup and now lives in the U.S. Missing is an unusually smooth blend of thriller and moral tale. And page after page, despite a plot that often seems unduly complex, Hostovsky gives a thoroughly convincing picture of a country drifting into Moscow's grip...
...When it was published a pious and disjointed tirade, his friends turned on him with angry reproaches. Gogol, whose bravado was the thinnest garment of self-loathing, broke and piteously begged forgiveness. "One drop of your pity," was all he asked. Few gave it Gogol lost his grip on the ladder...