Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tito's own home. Within eight hours Ranković had resigned, and-while denying the eavesdropping charge-had admitted that he was "morally and politically" at fault. With Ranković went Secret Police Boss Svetislav Stefanović, 55, whose ubiquitous UDBA spy network had kept a tough, unrelenting grip on Yugoslavia since 1946. In one stroke, Tito had dismantled the entire upper echelon of his secret police-a move unparalleled in the Communist world since Khrushchev destroyed Soviet Top Cop Lavrenty Beria...
...safety bill, the rubber companies are rolling out a whole batch of new tires that have some of the most important changes since the introduction of rayon cord (1938), nylon cord (1947) and tubeless tires (1947). Compared with existing tires, they wear longer, are less likely to blow out, grip the road more strongly, and keep their shape better...
...angles to one another, forming a diamond pattern around the wheel, but in a radial tire the cords are at 90° angles, forming a pattern of crosses. With this structure, the faster a car goes, the more tread is slapped onto the ground. The result is better road grip and up to 100% longer tread life-but also a harder ride. The tires are costly: about $50 each...
...wizardry and spy fiction to fizz up the formula for a Doris Day sex comedy. As usual, the man cast opposite her has to perform somewhat like the catcher in a flashy female trapeze act, and Rod Taylor doughtily goes through the motions of Doris-appreciation without losing his grip. As a combination scientific whiz kid and loverboy, Rod invents an anti-gravity device, heads a U.S. space center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit is decorated in passionate...
...real estate that is constantly being snatched up by the University, and the students who are steadily enlarging their grip on the City's housing market constitute one of the most consistent tensions between Harvard and the rest of Cambridge. "The biggest criticism that I've heard of the town-grown scene is that the University people have boosted rents so high that local people can't stay anymore," says one local politician...