Word: vising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corruption has gone too far; it seems to have fastened a vise-like grip on the government. Yet no one really takes any definite steps to uproot this evil. The public is apathetic. They have the idea firmly imbedded in their minds that the United States is too rich to feel the effects of losses due to corruption. They can well afford it. To regain the money paid out in taxes seems to be of more importance to the people than the remedy of this thoroughly rotten condition...
...nation", continued the speaker, who has attained a high degree of prominence in Europe as a student of the modern drama particularly, "but rather a group of 65 million people striving for individualism. To bind this mass the German government acts as a huge vise. This lack of community spirit is due largely to the 27 political parties which flourish in Germany today and to the large number of religious creeds. The dominant note is so largely that of individualism that there are no social sciences taught in the schools and universities. The watchword of the German social life today...
...belief in the boy's return, insanity that rasps into Elliott until answering hatred is aroused in him. Their lives stand stark, brutal, and he blurts out?something that overshadows his ineffectualness and her pettiness, a fact terrible enough to make them see themselves pinned together inseparably in the vise called Life...
...Adopted a joint resolution creating a commission to codify and re- vise Federal statutes. (Went to House...
...actress are not features of every home, no universal implication can be drawn from O'Neill's forceful yoking of two creatures so wildly attuned and so woefully apart. Despite the everyday naturalness of his domestic shambles, he makes out no general case for marriage as a vise and a vice. Plentifully in evidence is his instinctive plumbing of the human heart, and his flair for real talk in copious draughts. But the searchlight of his realism throws up figures that are drab instead of highly colored. Jacob Ben Ami rather luxuriates in suffering. He pities himself with...