Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia was voted the seventh worst major college team in the country by Steve Harvey in a September 18 article in the Boston Globe. While holding a firm grip on the ivy cellar, however, the Lions may field the most appealing group of cheerleaders in the League...
...goddamned mind, you freak," but Martin didn't even hear him. He was completely absorbed in his hallucinations, which kept getting more and more intense, more and more frantic. Something was going to happen very soon now, and Martin didn't want to miss it. Soon he had to grip the chair to keep from being thrown out, everything was going around so fast. But he tried to keep his eyes on the phone, and finally, as he watched in disbelief, it began undulating to a strange ringing vibration. Martin crawled over to it as fast as he could...
...quietly scrap Costa's plan for a revised constitution and a civilian Congress. For the present, Lyra Tavares can be expected to pursue Costa e Silva's role as a "moderator" in fending off the Young Turk officers who want the military to clamp an even firmer grip on the country. That is a task that may grow more difficult now that the original moderator has been muted...
...read your article with mounting horror. There can be no effective solution to our urban problems so long as these communities are in the grip of L.C.N...
...involved 60 countries and claimed more than 50 million lives. This week, as wailing sirens in Warsaw and ceremonies across Poland marked the 30th anniversary of the German invasion, the Poles reminded the world that the first victims had suffered the most severely of all. In the grip of an especially brutal German occupation, 6,000,000 Poles died-22% of the population. No fewer than 3,250,000 of the victims were Polish Jews who perished in Nazi death camps...