Word: grips
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When the train of history makes a sharp turn, said Lenin, the passengers who do not have a good grip on their seats are thrown off. Last week the Communist Limited had just about completed the dizzy turn from the Communazi Pact to the Battle of Britain, and U. S. literary liberals were spattered all over the right of way. As the Red Express hooted off into the shades of a closing decade, ex-fellow travelers rubbed their bruises, wondered how they had ever come to get aboard. Observers wondered if they had learned enough to switch to the democratic...
...phrase, and in the year of gathering fears and tensions that had led up to it, the whole eight-year course of the New Deal seemed suddenly to be photographed in lightning. Politicians had steadily taken power from businessmen. And now in A.D. 1940, with the world in the grip of war economy, even dollars had ceased to be as important as something else...
...Asay's fat little "Sargo." Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that his 1,245 pounds were evenly distributed. Pretty Evelyn Asay, of Mt. Carroll, Ill., just hung on, let her Hereford shift his steaks however it suited him. Her bare knees shook with excitement...
LONDON--Turkey and Great Britain have signed a new financial and trade agreement, it was announced simultaneously in both capitals tonight, which is expected to break Germany's economic grip on Turkey and result in the British Empire becoming Turkey's leading customer and provider...
...Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels... Their grip has tightened until they threaten to constrict all the life and vitally from the Harvard system . . . They are making a mockery of a Harvard education, a lie of a Harvard diploma...