Word: grips
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Miss Bell, no less an inspired genius, retained her grip. Though she blew up no bridges, conquered no cities, she was ready to take up the task of putting on its feet the revamped kingdom of Irak- Irak, key to the Transjordanian route to India...
...state that the pumping of a small amount of air into the lifting pontoons on the day in question was but a preliminary action, not intended to produce the disastrous raising of the bow, which actually resulted from an unpredictable and unexpected relaxation of the sea bottom's grip upon the S-51. To Captain King thanks for making clear this point. The remarks attributed to Captain King by a correspondent present at the event and subsequently printed verbatim by TIME were: "We've done everything we can. Two months of it and we're tired...
...Bill. Party and sectional lines were snapping. "Hell and Maria" Dawes sat uneasily in his chair- perhaps he wouldn't even get a chance to vote. He didn't. The bill was pronounced dead by a score of 45 to 39. The corn belt had lost its grip because three cotton fibres had deserted it, and the corn belt Senators were wroth...
...play in which a half-naked yellow girl employed all her sex resources to get a white man into her grip. (The Half-Caste...
...weighing 16 pounds, has been held in this meet since 1877. The hammer is thrown from a seven foot circle, in which the competitor is restrained to his fair throws. From its inception to 1891 a wooden handle was used. The wire handle, with its double or single grip, proved a great improvement over the old style hammer and really revolutionized the event...