Word: stranglehold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their final match against the Big Red last year, Harvard's skaters earned a 7-4 victory at Lynah Rink in Ithaca, dealing Cornell its first home Ivy loss in 44 games. The Crimson went on to win its first Ivy championship since 1963, breaking an eight-year Cornell stranglehold...
...their labor--an idea most American unions long ago abandoned in a single-minded pursuit of higher wages. This movement represents a clear and present danger to corporate growers, reactionary labor groups, conservative California legislators, and their entire pack of sympathizers and apologists who have this country in a stranglehold...
...primary interest in any decision on how best to break the current stranglehold--just as in the decision that it needs to be broken--are the interests of the workers. They are the ones who have borne the brunt of this dispute; they deserve the best from the country which has literally feasted on the fruits of their labor. Unfortunately, in the current dispute, the workers and the UFW have no leverage with the growers except through a boycott of their products. That any boycott of stores carrying Gallo wines hurts not just Gallo but also small store-owners...
...York law and politics before returning to his native Missouri and, in 1968, winning election as state attorney general. As founder of Missouri's New Republicans, a group of young, liberal G.O.P. reformers, Danforth has bypassed the old party establishment and helped break a 38-year Democratic stranglehold on top state offices. Though he lost a bid for the U.S. Senate in 1970, he was easily re-elected attorney general two years ago by an astonishing 460,000-vote margin and will probably make another Senate...
...series of foreign occupations. As Translator Thong writes in the introduction: "By an accident of history, the autobiography of a divided soul [Kieu's] has come to epitomize a moral crisis that confronts all Vietnamese . . . Until the Vietnamese people can shape their own destiny, free from the stranglehold of a superpower, countless Vietnamese women and men will see themselves as Kieu-victims of a perverse fate...