Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsmen and autograph hunters, the Chinese arrived in Ljubljana four days before the tournament began, set up camp in a schoolhouse twelve miles outside town. They brought their own food, their own cook, even their own sparring partners, trained in the styles of individual opponents-including the "tennis" grip favored by Western players over the older "penholder" grip still used with devastating effect by the Chinese...
When President Arturo Illia took office 18 months ago, Argentina was in the grip of a severe, two-year recession. Deciding that the cure was increased investment in basic industry, Illia boosted the money supply 61%, curbed all but essential imports and introduced tight exchange regulations aimed at halting the flight of capital. He was partially successful. After two straight years in which G.N.P. had declined an average 4.6%, the government reported that output in 1964 rose 8.2%. In the process, however, wages and living costs both shot up 30%, while meat, grain and wool exporters began complaining that high...
...Johnson who is pushing the world to the brink of the abyss. Once Johnson has made credible his intention to devastate the North if Liberation Front victories continue, Ho Chi Minh will have little choice but to strike south in a desperate attempt to break the American grip on his country...
...Northern whites and marched to the capitol building without a parade permit. They were scattered and beaten by mounted troopers. Today, more marched and, after the glamor of next week's Selma extravaganza fades, more and more will march, and someday these growing people will slip through the benevolent grip of their secular...
...talked incessantly -warm, wise, witty words about everything under the sun. Dean Acheson said of him: "One needs to see, to hear-particularly to hear his laugh, his general noisiness-to realize what an obstreperous person this man is, to have one's arm numbed by his viselike grip just above one's elbow, to feel the intensity of his nervous energy. Above all, one needs years of experience to know the depth of his concern about people...