Word: grips
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...reference to Britain's two-fisted grip at Suez and Gibraltar...
...Grip, the Rat is a story packed with words pronounced differently in different localities. It begins: "Once there [thar, theah] was a young rat [ret, rate] who couldn't make [mek, mack] up his mind. Whenever the other [udder, othah] rats asked [eskt, ast] him if he would like [lake, lack] to come out [oat, aout] with them [dem], he would answer [enser, ahnser], 'I don't know [ah doan-no, I dunno],' and when they said, 'Would you [wouldja] like to stop [stawp] at home [hum, hown]?' he wouldn...
...tale goes on to show how Grip lost his life because of his vacillation. A condensed version for use at Columbia and Barnard contains such words as "horse" (harse in Maine, hoss in Boston, hawse in Texas) and ''fear and horror." in pronouncing which the speaker may drop an "r" out of one word or the other but seldom both. At the end is added an irrelevant passage which Professor Greet wrote after a trip through Virginia. People from around Richmond may be expected to read it thus: "The cyah frightened the cow in the gyarden. The girls...
...Scott Vare, 66, merchant, onetime Congressman from Pennsylvania (1912-27) and later its famed Senator-reject, longtime boss of Philadelphia's Republican machine; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Elected to the Senate in 1926, he was refused his seat because of excessive primary expenditures ($785,000). His grip on the Philadelphia machine was broken in last May's primaries...
...Monday's violence was sporadic, minor?a few bricks heaved, a few trucks upset, some creosote bombs tossed through windows in Oakland. By nightfall Harry Bridges was easing his grip. On order of the Public Utilities Commission municipal streetcars began running again, with the strike committee's full assent. Picket lines made no move to stop police-guarded food trucks coming in from nearby farms. The strike committee announced full resumption of bakery, milk and ice deliveries. Citizens heard that the committee was planning to let all restaurants open next morning. But all liquor sales were banned "during the emergency...