Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fossils. Modern Republicans such as Vermont's Senator George Aiken disliked having a nonpolitician draw a line across the G.O.P.; so did the Republican National Committee. The Democrats got riled at Larson's professional stump speeches ("Throughout the New and Fair Deals, this country was in the grip of a somewhat alien philosophy, imported from Europe"), and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson personally took on the task of cutting the hapless Larson to pieces. Thus, when Larson set out to win a $31 million increase to $144 million in USIA funds last spring, the House and Senate contemptuously...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14--James R. Hoffa, battling a barrage of federal court charges threatening to loosen his tight grip over the Teamsters, was barred today from taking over as the union's president...
Well aware that Poland now wants to shuck off Soviet domination, that all of Eastern Europe is in ferment, and that anything any Western nation can do to help break the Soviet grip would help, the old Chancellor set out with realistic caution. He wanted more trade with Poland, hoping that from this mutually advantageous first step diplomatic relations might follow. As a beginning, he would like to send a trade mission to Warsaw headed not by a trader but by a political figure...
...comparison may be unfair but is inevitable none the less. Captive soldiers with grim, tormented faces and exhausted bodies suffer abominably in the grip of barbed wire. Death incarnate descends its dark, all-powerful might into the midst of struggling children and takes war's most horrifying toll. Humanitarian aspirations and instincts as epitomized by Kollwitz in the spirit of motherhood suffer and die under the relentless blow of man's inhumanity...
Unscheduled Chores. Last March he learned that being the only proficient diver in the entire country let him in for chores the State Department had never visualized. He was called out to the Rio Quaccerique hole when a twelve-year-old boy* lost his grip on his inner tube and disappeared under the swirling currents. After an hour's search he found the body lodged between some underwater rocks...