Word: grips
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...peace. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek proposed a five-man supercommittee (headed by U.S. Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart) to work out a plan for a coalition government with the Communists. The Communists agreed to participate on the committee if they were left undisturbed in North China. Since the Communist grip on North China -and on the main railroad arteries-was a major issue between Yenan and Nanking, this condition was not so simple as it seemed...
...many Latin countries, cheap food would save the day. But half the land lies idle, much of it in the grip of the feudal hacienda-owners. And though nearly half the population lives and works on the land, the country imports huge quantities of food...
...affect U.S. security, it is a godsend to moviegoing fans of Alfred Hitchcock, who is always at his best with spies. Thriller-expert Hitchcock takes his time about uncorking his thrills. Moving at a casual, almost leisurely pace, he waits until he is certain of a hard, tight grip on his audience. Then he runs away with...
...other recently occupied areas, Chinese liberals heard and many believed verifiable tales that were remarkably like the stories of Red oppression in eastern Europe. But this loss of prestige among intellectuals was much less important to the Communists than retention of their stranglehold. They would not voluntarily abandon that grip...
...opponent in Wimbledon's finals was Australia's ambidextrous Geoff Brown, 22, who serves righthanded, hits with his left hand on the left side, and with a two-handed grip on the right side. Petra, 30, onetime French infantryman who spent 18 months in a German prison camp, barked at ball boys, scowled at the linesmen, whooped when he won a point. He was not so much surly or unsportsmanlike as unable to contain himself. Both Petra and Brown had blinding serves. Seldom had so much power and so little finesse been seen in a Wimbledon finals. Petra...