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Word: gripped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jeff Beck is hovering over the drums at Waller's shoulder inserting notes in flourishes between the crevices of the beat. When he speeds up the tempo Waller has an anguished look as he slithers on the cymbals and stabs at the drums, as if in the grip of some force outside himself...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Jeff Beck Group | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

Those desires are unrealistic at present, because the Christian Democrats refuse to go along with them. Many of them, on the contrary, favor a return to a far tougher line with the Soviet bloc and argue that West German concessions are likely only to encourage Ulbricht to tighten his grip on West Berlin. As they see it, deals between the two Germanys ultimately would erode the allied responsibility for West Berlin, still the city's best guarantee for safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Conversation in Berlin | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...Houston, where 244 murders were committed in 1967, a tinny .22 known as the "Saturday-night special" figures in a disproportionate number of killings. In Charlotte, N.C., foreign-made light pistols are known as "hand grenades" among police because they are likely to explode in the user's grip. Mass-stamped from light metals, they lose whatever accuracy they have after as few as five shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...circumstances were cruel enough: son of a house already in tragedy's grip, father of ten with the eleventh expected, symbol of the youth and toughness, the wealth and idealism of the nation he sought to lead?this protean figure cut down by a small gun in a small cause. Crueler still, perhaps, was the absence of real surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A LIFE ON THE WAY TO DEATH | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

From the start, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy's lax grip on leadership of the Poor People's Campaign has been steadily slipping away. Last week his hold relaxed to the point of paralysis. While Resurrection City afforded Washington an unseemly display of backbiting and verbal pyromania, the protest movement's leaders purged the man who, above all, might have given their faltering cause realistic direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty: Insurrection City | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

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