Word: stranglehold
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...resolution found the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan "deployed for immediate multifront aggression, threatening the very existence of the state." The only solution was military action "to liberate Israel from the stranglehold of aggression which is progressively being tightened." The Cabinet thereafter gave the General Staff permission to fix its own time and place for a response. Less than 24 hours later, Israeli jets were on their way to destroy Arab planes on the ground in a first strike that determined the course of the entire brief...
Mark Spitz of Indiana, perhaps the best all-round swimmer in the world, tightened his stranglehold on the 200-yd. butterfly, breaking the American and NCAA record in the trials and going on to shatter that mark hours later with a 1:48.48 clocking...
...later, he impounded the passports of all members of Pakistan's "22 families," the wealthy aristocrats who-until the secession of East Pakistan-controlled two-thirds of the country's industrial assets and 80% of its banking and insurance businesses, and declared that he would break their stranglehold on the nation's economy. Bhutto also announced that he would hold the portfolios of defense, foreign affairs, interior and interprovincial affairs himself...
...very little contact with Mexican labor and almost none with the peasantry. While they would like to develop contacts with laborers and peasants, they are discouraged by the tight government controls. Before they can help the poor the students feel that they must first break the government's political stranglehold...
...record would not be a particular departure from past practice if the power concentrated in his office were not so weighty. Traditionally, most Presidential advisors were also heads of departments; they were responsible to Congress, both through the appropriations process and as Administration representatives. But not Kissinger; his stranglehold on policy, combined with his Congressional immunity, has cut off vast amounts of information on White House policymaking from Capitol Hill's purview. Congressional resentment on this subject reached a high pitch last March, when Stuart Symington, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged on the Senate floor that...