Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...winning tactics of eight years ago to pull him through again. Accompanied by the country music of "Johnny Dollar and the Dollar Bills," Wallace still promises defiance of federal desegregation orders, and he plays hard on the old theme of the ingrained inferiority and persecution complexes that grip much of Alabama. "They used to say how rude and crude we all were, us rednecks," he told one hollering crowd recently. "Well, last year they were saying, 'Yessir, Mr. Wallace, and yessir, Mr. Alabama.'" Wallace claims that because of him, many of the speeches by Nixon and Vice President...
...within two hours, we scooped up the most pitiful of the wounded, a little eight-year-old boy with two bullet holes in his mangled right leg, put him in the back seat of the car and rushed back to Phnom-Penh. All the way, he kept a tight grip on Allman's hand; it was the only way we knew he was still alive. We dropped him off at the French hospital...
After three years of iron-fisted rule, Greece's military junta suddenly seemed to be relaxing its grip. A total of 332 political prisoners were unexpectedly released from jail en masse. Twenty-seven men and women convicted of participating in a bomb plot that rocked Athens last summer were given lighter-than-expected sentences. A hand-picked senate of 50 men from various income levels and occupations was being formed to advise Premier George Papadopoulos and his colleagues...
...roamed the greens with a brass, center-shaft club the head of which was fashioned from an old doorknob. For a while Sam Snead tried putting between his legs, croquet style, with something that looked like an undernourished sledgehammer. Arnold Palmer prepares for a tournament by endlessly changing the grip and reweighting the head of his favorite putter. Gene Littler has been known to use a club he bought at a miniature golf course...
...Known as the King of the Flat Blade, he is perhaps the best putter among all the great players in the game today. Though he likes to say that he attaches more importance to his driving, he will lecture for hours on the virtues of the "reverse overlap" putting grip, or the different consistencies of Bermuda and bent-grass greens. "If you don't putt well, it affects your whole game. It is the most delicate and precise thing you do," he says. "It takes more touch, more feel. You have to be mentally refreshed to do it well...