Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cartographer Robert M. Chapin Jr. fell the intricate assignment of showing precisely what happens to the baseball as Marichal pitches-fastball, screwball, slider and curve. Marichal posed his right hand and ball grip for the four photographs in the diagram that illustrates the cover story, and made several suggestions and corrections in the drafts of Chapin's drawing. It should be pointed out that Chapin brought some baseball credentials of his own to the task. He once pitched for the Pirates -the Park Road Pirates of Washington...
...federal law. The states, shamed and intimidated by the federal fiat, had little choice but to ignore any of their own laws that differed from it. In the same area, the Supreme Court's one-man-one-vote decision freed state legislatures from the hard and ancient grip of rural domination. But for all that, in a nation that embraces a bewildering diversity of sects and sections, there are a great many national problems that do not lend themselves to a single, unbending national solution...
...would overthrow the Chinese Communists, says Professor Robert Scalapino of the University of California, "seems remote, barring global war or some other major and unforeseeable crisis." Other China experts agree. The Communists have unified the provinces, centralized all authority and imposed a totalitarian administration that has steadily tightened its grip on all phases of government and life. Chairman Mao Tse-tung's chilling philosophy is that "all political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." The gun that ensures his control is held by the Chinese Communist Party apparatus, whose 19 million members make up the largest...
Since the dyslexic child has faulty visual and auditory perception, Mrs. McGlannan tries to reinforce these senses by stressing touch techniques. Children make human and animal figures out of clay to get a clearer conception of spatial relationships, work with big Masonite squares and circles to get a grip on geometric symbols. They stand on one foot and hold out their arms to comprehend the ideas of leftness and rightness. They manipulate letters that have been fashioned from pipe cleaners, feel the shapes with their eyes closed as the teacher pronounces the letter's sound. The aim, says...
...around here. Ten years or so ago, Bette and I cast our faces in plaster; I had to go first. The casting went as smooth as silk. I even posed on the kitchen floor with a lily in my hand and my face in the firm grip of a plaster mask. I didn't realize how firm a grip it was until I attempted to remove it. (We had used petroleum jelly without the benefit of Saran.) I was hung up by my hair and my eyelashes. My eyebrows pulled out without any fuss, but I couldn...