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Like the Dutch in Indonesia (see above), the French were finding it far from easy to regain their grip on Indo-China. Here too the U.S. played an indirect somewhat reluctant role: the French were using Lend-Lease equipment against the natives...
...finds Cynthia a very, very sick girl-a juicy situation that Playwright Delmar seizes on with such intemperate pleasure that she loses her head and her grip on the show...
...worried. But Labor was undeterred. Buttressed by the people's renewed mandate in municipal elections (see above), it proceeded inflexibly on its course to state ownership. The Bank of England had lost its battle, the coal owners were reconciled to coming defeat. Labor was widening its socialist grip, tightening its socialist squeeze...
Japan was in the grip of a private black terror. The terrorists: diehard fanatics who would not acknowledge defeat. The victims: those "responsible for the ignoble surrender." The punishment: death for those who were caught, arson for those who had fled...
...Tigers could really enjoy their fan mail (see cut), and Manager Steve O'Neill could breathe easier. He had been holding his breath for three months as the Tigers grimly held their first-place grip. A down-to-earth Irishman, O'Neill had done much with little...