Word: grips
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...Southern Democrats had a tight grip, through seniority, on important committee chairmanships, but they had no positive program...
...little girl. She had been hurrying home from the playground when she was hit by an automobile coming down Strasburg Avenue. For a few moments, the little girl clung desperately to the car, rapping on the fender. The driver heartlessly drove on. Then the little girl lost her grip and was crushed beneath a rear wheel...
...great to be alive, thought Vag, reluctantly loosening his grip on the pillow. Especially, he thought as he sprung out of bed, especially on Saturday morning. What ho for football, he thought. What ho for the American Way of Life. What ho. Some day he would take his firstborn, Young Vag, to the Stadium and show him the great beating heart of America...
...refused and therefore cannot, enter the Soviet sector any more. "In order to escape the grip of the devil, he would have had to sign a contract to the devil," remarked Liebenau wryly. "He was lucky," he added; "others who have been arrested have never been seen again...
...pair of husky seniors, Frank Vitale and "Coffee Dan" Taylor, have a tight grip on the starting offensive guard posts. Another sophomore, Stan Tsapis, has little chance to muscle his way in. Defensively, James has replaced the talented, and graduated Vince DiGrande with Jack McCarthy, with Jim Quimby at the other guard...