Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scriptural Saying. To break the stranglehold of his fellow Americo-Liberians, Tubman began what he called a "national unification policy." In 1944, for the first time, tribal Liberians got the vote and even won a few seats in the legislature, where they proved to be reliable members of Tubman's True Whig Party. Later, Tubman extended the suffrage to women, took tribal Liberians into his Cabinet. In the back country, often carried in a hammock, the traditional mode of travel for Liberian VIPs, he palavered endlessly with jungle chiefs. Eventually he set up a network of bush clinics, experimental...
...University administration has got the whole world in its hand, and sometimes the squeeze is too much to bear. An affectionate clutch can become a stranglehold, and noble hearts often bleed for ignoble purposes...
...Argentina's Juan Domingo Peron, 62, having seized power in a 1943 military coup and put a stranglehold on the country that lasted until his wastrel ways brought economic distress and the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church, was dumped in a military uprising in September 1955, fled to Paraguay, then to Venezuela...
Last week, in his annual I.A.P.A. report on press freedom, Jules Dubois complained of a governmental stranglehold on the news in five countries besides the Dominican Republic: Paraguay, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Colombia. "Not next year, or the year after, but some year," says Dubois, "the time may come when the association can say to a dictator or a would-be dictator: 'Stop! You've gone far'enough!'" But Dubois reports that even in countries where newspapers are basically free, even in Castillo Armas' Guatemala, attempts at suppression continue. The moment a free press fears...
...Easterns by an overwhelming margin and serve notice that they will be the team to beat in he Nationals two weeks hence. Only the Crimson's Chouteau Dyer in the 100 and Army's Frank Knight in the three-meter dive were able to break the Eli stranglehold...