Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain, the army. Perhaps the Caudillo's closest friend and ally is the Chief of the General Staff, Captain General Agustin Munoz Grandes, who commanded Franco's Blue Division when it fought beside the Nazis on the Russian front in 1941, and who has an iron grip on the military units...
...must be explained as a success of sentiment, because there is not much to grip the imagination in the somewhat dimly drawn characters of Mara, a young village girl, and Bebo, a ig-year-old Communist and former resistance fighter. Bebo left the partisans with a big pistol in his pocket and a boy's pathetic notion that he could slay dragons with it. He swaggers about, beats up a Fascist priest, and finally shoots the young son of a militia sergeant. Bebo thinks himself a hero; he knows simply that his victim was a nonCommunist, therefore an enemy...
...only six months as Governor-and countless denials that he was interested in anything beyond Albany-Rockefeller admitted publicly that he had the presidential bug. He undertook a series of whirlwind speaking tours to sample political sentiment, began trying to define issues on which he might challenge the strong grip Vice President Nixon held on the party machinery. But Rockefeller found that the men who controlled the Republican Convention were down the line for Dick Nixon. Just when many politicians expected him to fight Nixon for the nomination, he made a "definite and final" announcement that...
Apparently the less tarnished, Connally emerged the winner. His political mentor, Lyndon Johnson, thus tightened his grip on the Texas Democratic organization. In November Connally will learn just how much the fratricidal name calling has hurt him: he will face conservative Republican Jack Cox, 40, a onetime Democrat who switched to the G.O.P. and is trying to persuade Texas to do the same...
...works. Without the figure-eight pattern of its hand stitching, a baseball would be just another sphere. But the pattern is not for decoration, nor is it merely to hold the horsehide sections together-that could be accomplished by a seam around the middle. The curvilinear design provides a grip for the pitcher, and when the ball is released with a spinning action, the seam gives the sort of resistance in flight that makes a controlled curve possible. It is a perfect example of the law that in sport, as in architecture, a thing has to do what...