Word: vise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Read this letter as if it were my love testament," wrote pert Clara Petacci to her paramour, "because it is the last one that you will get ... If sometimes I felt in me the desperate attempt to free myself of this amorous vise-remember how you hurt me-those were waves of revolt...
...line of girls began to form in the wings and an Academic faculty member told us each to pick a partner. We complied, and within moments, were on stage. The graduating girls proved even more tense than the high school group, for they clamped the pro-offered arms in vise-like grips. At the center of the stage was indeed an overflowing punch bowl, but it offered punch wholly without appeal. The narrator made a grave tactical error at this point when she told the audience gaily. "In this scene, each girl is with her very best beau...
Most modern short story writers like to keep their tales within easy commuting distance of everyday life. Not so, Wilbur Daniel Steele, 65, who rejoices in being a reactionary and flavorful old fogy. Like Conrad and Maugham, he prefers to clamp a character in the vise of a strange situation, watch him wriggle toward nobility, degradation, or death. At his best, Author Steele can stir a jigger of irony, a dash of adventure, a sprig of the exotic and a pinch of mystery into a tippling good yarn. At his worst, he makes the tricks of Fate look like...
Even if it were possible to persuade the French government (which is caught in a political vise between left and right and which has to face parliamentary elections next year), there still remains the problem of convincing the Germans themselves of the desirability of rearming. Germans might be happy to rearm to fight in China or India, but they know that any future war will be fought right in the middle of their own homeland...
Crushed in a tightening vise, student automobile owners are registering their ears in increasing numbers as the October 6 deadline nears. On that date all delinquent ear owners are liable to a $10 fine...