Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peck spoke on "Crisis in the Courts," which he claimed have "lagged in the grip of old forms and old ways." What he lamented particularly was "the cost and loss in economic and human terms of a court system which is excessively expensive and inordinately slow...
...down and began shoveling mouthfuls of rice. "What's the matter?" her relatives asked. "Don't you like pork?" "Oh yes!" the little girl replied, "I like pork. But we shouldn't eat it so quickly." The fact is that Red China is in the grip of famine. The dimensions of the trouble are impossible to measure because of Communist efforts to conceal the facts, and because of China's ancient indifference to statistics. But a careful culling of local newspapers shows the significant details of China's misery...
...locomotion of the snail is explained in detail. The long flat "foot" lays down a roadway of sticky mucus; then parts of the foot grip the ground while other parts move forward. When the snail is crawling on glass, the action of its foot can be seen as a series of slow waves. The speed averages 2½ in. per minute, and the snail makes about 35 foot-waves to cover this distance. The tractive force is considerable. A snail can lift five times its weight up a vertical surface, and on the horizontal it can pull a toy wagon...
Authors Gerhardi and Loewenstein have obviously spent many hours of near-simian ingenuity on Analyze Yourself. Though many of their conclusions are demonstrably false ("Don Juan or donkey, we are all alike in our love-making") and sometimes alarming ("Every male in the grip of passion behaves . . . like an impetuous bull"), others are shrewd and accurate, e.g., "As an artist ... do not labor under any illusion that society will safeguard or sustain...
HPHE U.S. is currently in the grip of a shortage that Assistant Defense Secretary Donald Quarles ominously calls "potentially a greater threat to national security than any aggressor weapons known." That is the shortage of trained engineers. Just to keep pace...