Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proper choice is obvious. Breaking the iron grip of the public schools will not be easy, and establishing viable community schools will be very difficult. Adults will have to assume new and burden some responsibilities; communities will have to be founded where there were only neighborhoods before. But the possible gains are enormous. Perhaps, by giving children a chance to live their lives, we can take control...
...grip of the longest bear market since World War II. Stocks have dropped almost steadily for 13 months, and in that time the listed shares held by 26 million Americans have been cut by $158 billion. Last week the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 31 points, to 744, bringing the market to its lowest point since November 1963, just after President Kennedy was assassinated. The decline was democratic. Du Pont scraped a 15-year low. U.S. Steel traded at its 1954 level. Control Data and University Computing, among other recent glamour stocks, lost ten points or more each...
Stance is important. Also grip. Keep your eye on the ball. Don't forget to follow through. Golf? Yes, and also a parable for the Christian life, as worked out by Billy Graham in a sermon distributed to British golf magazines. Follow the rules, promises the Rev. Billy, and you'll be greeted at the clubhouse by "the greatest pro of all time, Jesus Christ." At the 19th hole...
...Before a country can be Communist," said one West European diplomat, "its government has got to have a strong grip on the people and the economy. The Brazzaville government has hardly any grip at all." Since 1968, when an army coup led by Captain Marien Ngouabi overthrew the leftist government of President Alphonse Massamba-Debat, the regime has been rocked by two major Cabinet shakeups and at least two attempted coups. It has also tried at least 18 former high officials on charges of treason...
...idea was brilliantly elaborated by Bern's colleague, Werner Heisenberg, but it provoked serious challenge. Even Bern's old friend, Einstein, with whom he often played violin sonatas, did not believe that particle motion-or, indeed, any basic phenomena in nature-was so completely in the grip of chance. "God may be subtle," said Einstein, "but he is not malicious...