Word: grips
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Shelton: "Because he lost his grip in Russia...
...brutalities of Nazi domination are no new thing and all peoples or territories in their grip have suffered from the worst form of government by terror. What is new is that many of these territories are now being redeemed by the advancing armies of the liberating powers and that in their desperation, the recoiling Hitlerites and Huns are redoubling their ruthless cruelties. This is now evidenced with particular clearness by monstrous crimes on the territory of the Soviet Union...
Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia gave President Roosevelt (through visiting Princes Feisal and Khalid) a three-foot sword with a diamond-studded grip and curved blade of Damascus steel...
George VI of England gave "the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad" a four-foot, two-handed sword with a double-edged blade, a chased silver crosspiece, a grip wrapped in 18-carat gold wire, a pommel of rock crystal...
...Yorkers will elect a Lieutenant Governor. A Republican victory would be a vote of confidence in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, might prove that the Governor's grip on pivotal New York is strong enough to swing the State in a Presidential election. But the Governor would be reluctant to give up his job-even to campaign for the Presidency-if it meant turning over the State to the New Deal through a Democratic Lieutenant Governor. Last week the two candidates stepped gingerly into a four-week campaign...