Word: grips
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...late in arriving there. From now on, Duke should make it a point of giving concerts at least once every two years. The tremendous turn-out in spite of the weather shows that his popularity is not restricted to jazz esoterics and a few classicists who've lost their grip...
Jansen and Weyl, who have felt Naziism's heavy hand, forecast a reign of terror in the Reich before the Nazis' grip is loosed. This punishment, they believe, is inevitable and must be suffered. But they take issue with those who class all Germans as Nazi brutes whose record bars them forever from a place in future world affairs. They predict for Germany "a government of the people, by the people and for the people" which will be established by a democratic revolution. As Social Democrats and members of the Underground they speak...
Montgomery had shattered Mussolini's last vestige of Italy's African Empire. He had opened up a new base for British naval operations and a southern base for Allied ground and air forces from which the Axis' slipping grip on North Africa could be pounded and attacked. He had ended the longest chase in military history-1,300 miles in 13 weeks...
...line shellback malcontents who were duck soup for Curran's earlier pinko type of organizing, and they are not obliged to hold union cards. Only 1,000 to 1,500 monthly swing over to N.M.U. This percentage is not big enough if Curran is to hold his grip...
...other days, a skeptical world might have doubted that the Russians had indeed blasted the German grip on Leningrad. Now a pattern of Russian authenticity had become familiar. In recent weeks, Germany's admissions of pivotal losses have been delayed but nonetheless complete...