Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corrected by a revision of Harvard's schedule, if some changes are made in the attitude towards athletes here. It must not be corrected by a program of athletic scholarships--that we believe most firmly has no place at Harvard. We can play respectable football by merely loosening the stranglehold that the Administration has on any move to give athletes an given chance. But the crucial concern right now is that no attempt to change the situation involve the firing of Arthur Valpey, who may not be the genius he was hailed as last year but who is certainly doing...
...Signora determined to punish the entire street; she bought up every house and ordered wholesale evictions. But her fury brought on a stroke that left her a speechless idiot, while the Fascists collected the rent on her houses and hunted down young Communists like Ugo to tighten their political stranglehold...
Divorce. U.S. trustbusters won the first round of their fight to end Technicolor Inc.'s alleged stranglehold on the color-movie industry. The Eastman Kodak Co., charged with helping Technicolor to dominate the field by exclusive color film processing arrangements, signed a consent decree to make its patents available to all comers. Technicolor refused to sign the decree, may carry its fight to the courts...
...four Allied zone commanders to alleviate the Berlin crisis at the "working level" resulted in complete breakdown-so complete that immediate suspicion arose that the Russian commander, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, was merely stalling. While the Berlin talks were going on, the Communists tried crassly and unsuccessfully to increase their stranglehold on the city (see below...
Mother Hubbard is a gentle creature-all she does is to furnish son Ben with a blackmailing stranglehold on his tyrannical father. Son Oscar is just a born ninny; he tries hard to be a stinker but he hasn't the talent. But the other three would make a quarrelsome day in a bear pit look insipid. Now & then, as they shift grips on each other and set-to all over again, their unmitigated hellishness comes very near absurdity. But they are never undramatic...