Word: grips
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...violent. They are filled with music of an aggressive character, with strong rhythms and climaxes. Such a piece of music is the Beethoven Fifth Symphony. Its short, ruthless opening theme collars the attention of the listener at once, and holds him throughout the movement in a bull-dog grip...
...after all these sputterings were over, the Mexican political temperature cooled to a degree lower than it had enjoyed for many months. Whatever Mr. Hull's intention, his little note proved that: 1) all Mexico's political factions are united on oil; 2) Cárdenas' grip on the country is still strong. Mexico's political and economic unrest is heightened by the fact that after nearly six years of revolutionary social experimentation Lázaro Cárdenas must let go. On July 7, according to the Constitution, Mexico must elect a new President...
...Despite the Allies' tighter grip on the Skaggerak and Kattegat, into Kiel last week steamed the German prison ship Altmark, safe home after being grounded and robbed of her prisoners by the British destroyer Cossack in Jösingfjord (TIME...
...football with a ridged surface to give forward-passers and other ball-handlers a better grip...
Chief dental weapon at that time was "the key," a large iron hook with a head that ringed an aching tooth, a long handle for a good grip. "There never was a claw on bird or beast," wrote Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "that was the cause of such anguish . . . such howls of agony as that diabolical instrument looking like a vulture's talon...