Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exile organizations-Alpha 66. an action-minded band of Cuban professional men, and the Second Front of the Escambray, one of Castro's disillusioned old revolutionary groups-took all the credit. The State Department professed to be embarrassed by it all: "Such raids do not weaken the grip of the Communist regime in Cuba-indeed, they may strengthen...
There is nothing more humiliating than to step up to a golf ball, plant your feet (closed stance), set your hands (interlocking grip), wiggle your hips (pros call it "waggle"), swing mightily, and miss. When it happens to a pro athlete-ha! -there's one for the 19th hole...
...article headed "Doubt and Drift Grip Washington," Reston reported: "A strange kind of malaise now pervades Washington. Not only at the top of the Administration, but down through the Congress as well, there is a feeling that something is seriously wrong...
...human body, according to Canetti, bristles with power. The most innocent-seeming gesture recalls the primitive seizing and devouring of prey. "The hand's real glory derives from the grip," writes Canetti, "the central and most often celebrated act of power." The hard, unyielding rows of teeth resemble smoothly polished stone weapons, and in an open mouth often appear menacing. Even the way a person sits in a chair may reveal whether he is, at heart, gripping a throne or a horse or another human being.' Canetti has small patience for those who think man's basic...
...Tshombe's breakaway regime for the third time since September 1961. In two weeks, the tough U.N. troops had seized a steadily lengthening ribbon of rail lines and nearly every major population center in the province. Only the western copper town of Kolwezi remained in Katanga's grip; it was defended by 2,000 boozy gendarmes, 100 of Tshombe's white mercenaries, and a smashing blonde ambulance driver known as "Madame Yvette," who sauntered about in paratroop boots, camouflage uniform, bush hat and shoulder holster. Only 50 miles from Kolwezi, Indian infantrymen probed cautiously forward, waiting only...