Word: grips
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...another intramural front, Adams House tankmen yesterday tightened their grip on their swimming league lead by outsplashing Lowell 27 to 20 in the Indoor Athletic Building pool. Meanwhile Dunster athletes further bludgeoned Leverett with a 35 to 13 ducking to climb into fourth place behind Adams, Kirkland, and Winthrop...
...alleged that "fascist" armies were being maintained in the U.S. and British zones of Germany. The Greek elections wavered toward postponement because of a leftist boycott; chancelleries puzzled what to do next with Rightist Dictators Franco and Perón. The Danes politely asked Russia to loosen her grip on Bornholm island; the Iranians despairingly saw her extend her grip on Azerbaijan; the Turks were once again the object of a Moscow war of nerves...
More than imported rhetoric would be needed to give Japan a grip on democracy. The rhetoric, however, was at least a start...
...Hell. But the gaitered ghost cannot argue all day. "I have to be back next Friday to read a paper. We have a little Theological Society down there. Oh yes! There is plenty of intellectual life. Not of a very high quality, perhaps. One notices a certain lack of grip-a certain confusion of mind...
...Generalissimo's grip on the Army tightened. Royalist Lieut. General Alfredo Kindelan was ordered off to "confinement" in the Canaries, where once the Republic had tried to confine Franco. Franco's old friend Lieut. General Juan Vigon Suerodiaz moved into the Chief of Staff post. Command of the Valladolid region went to Don Juan's unfriendly cousin, Francisco Bourbon, Duke of Seville...