Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baum's grip was tenuous at best; occasionally his hand fluttered off Maxham's leg as Maxham kept driving him around and around. But the hand never really lost it and earned a 1-1 tie that had the crowd in M.I.T.'s duPont gym on its feet...
...Infighting. A dark-haired daughter of a Marseille family, Mile. Charles-Roux, 44, was raised in Italy, where her father was French Ambassador to the Vatican. Like the long-forgotten works of other postwar mandarins, her novel berates the crass profit motive in the U.S., speaks of "the grip of money on each face." One episode tells of "Babs," a leggy New York career girl and Fair staffer who marries an Italian-American political boss and goes with him to Sicily, where women have a considerably different role from the one she is accustomed to. The narrator is Gianna, another...
...factories freed from the rigid grip of central planning, Zhivkov reported output improved and labor productivity nearly tripled. Partly as a result, Zhivkov was able to promise Bulgarians "TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, cars, furniture"-coupled with a shorter work week (down from 46 hours to 44) and a much needed 7% wage increase across the board...
Only this time around he may have a real grip on something. When he an nounced six months ago that he was forming the new Buddy Rich Band, the boys in the business merely yawned. Cocky, flip, belligerent, Rich had drummed his way in and out of more orchestras, mismanaged more money than any ten musicians. The new Buddy Rich Band? "Another one of his fancies for the moment," shrugged Bandleader Stan Kenton. But then, to everyone's surprise, the band not only materialized but drew enthusiastic, sellout crowds in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Marveled Kenton: "Rich...
...Because of that fact, Eastern Europe today is caught up in a brutal but visionary economic revolution. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, reforms - in various degrees and diverging directions - are rippling through all East European countries. If the reforms succeed, they will not only break the glacial grip of Stalin ist "command economics" but reshape the societies and political structures of the Continent's entire Communist world...