Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intelligence I had so little grip...
...quick scribble, but for clear, developed, informative drawings. The major names of 17th century Dutch painting are there: Hendrick Goltzius, Aelbert Cuyp, Jacques de Gheyn, Pieter Saenredam, Hendrick Avercamp, Ferdinand Bol. So are scores of lesser figures, known mainly to the specialist, but always represented by drawings of considerable grip and finesse...
...lost in a fight that followed a poker game in Martinsburg, because it was acknowledged that William Bell knew every backroad and trail in the state. A commission he would turn down, because unlike most of the people of the new state caught in the grip of the third Great Awakening William Bell liked the feeling of insecurity, the feeling of not knowing whether he was north or south or blue or gray, and became a captain in a raiding force that was an adjunct to Stonewall Jackson's third cavalry, simply because he could make more money. After Jackson...
...group of small, dirt poor farmers met in a ratty, ramshackle cabin in Lampassas County, Texas, to discuss their future. Those men and women, the founders of what became The Farmers Alliance (the forerunner of the Populist movement of the '90's), were struggling to pry loose the ruinous grip of the crop lien system under which a banker could tell an indebted farmer whom to buy from, what to grow, and whom to sell to. As one of the men who had been at the Lampassas meeting said later, the farmers had come to forestall "the day... when...
...actor in a Beckett drama, shines on each in turn, leaving the others in darkness. The spotlight is both narrator and inquisitor, forcing each of the three to tell his or her side of the same sordid story of betrayed love and adultery. Released from their urns and the grip of the spotlight, the three faces-of husband, wife and mistress-would be re-enacting a domestic triangle in an old-fashioned drawing room...