Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jazz, which every few years is pronounced dead and then somehow revives, has really begun to develop fatal symptoms lately. Its traditional styles are suffering from hardening of the arteries, its avant-garde is in the grip of a frenzied obscurity, and its fever chart at the box office is down, down, down. But now, just as the mourning is starting in earnest, jazz is getting a vital transfusion from the people who seemed to be helping to dig its grave-the rock 'n' rollers...
...returning, he holds two bloody daggers in one hand--again behind his back, where he can't see them. This also makes more plausible the lengthy ensuing dialogue with his wife before She spots the daggers; and she finds that she has to pry them loose from his grip as though rigor mortis had set in. So traumatic has the experience been for him that she finally has to yank and drag him off to wash his bloody hands...
...grip of a semipermanent revolution, constantly undergoing social and economic changes that in Europe might send people to the barricades. Occasionally, Americans may still try to re-enact the two-fisted frontiersman, but the real source of much American violence is the swift pace of social change, which can be deeply disturbing to the less stable personalities in a society. Europe has usually experienced its revolutions spasmodically, at fairly long intervals, while in between it tends to defer to official authority far more than do Americans...
...performance during the 1956-66 decade was better: it eroded by an average of only 1.8% a year, the lowest rate among major industrial powers. In little Guatemala, sound management has kept the quetzal from depreciating in the past ten years. A sampling of inflation's global grip...
...large measure ineffectual. After World War II, the Soviet Union scored tremendous gains, principally the Communization of Eastern Europe accomplished by the Red army. In due course, the West was compelled to acknowledge these gains and stop thinking about "rolling back" Communism. On the other hand, Moscow's grip on its satellites grew dramatically weaker. And beyond its original World War II conquests, Moscow won virtually nothing in the way of further Communist takeovers, with the sole exception of Cuba. Quite apart from Communism, Russia has achieved far less than it has often been credited with in the more...