Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's biggest postwar rice crop. The previously soaring cost of food was solved overnight by raids on warehouses that proved heavily stocked with hoarded goods. Currently, Burma's greatest problem results from the thousands of Chinese fleeing across its borders to escape the iron grip of the people's communes...
...budget has been called political propaganda." the President told newsmen. "Now. I am not running for anything. I am just trying to do my best for America." And in trying to do his best, a lame-duck President -lately berated by Democratic critics for losing his grip and wanting to shrug off responsibilities on Congress (see The Congress) -had managed to frame the first big political issue of 1959 in his own terms...
...Normal" Inflation. In arguments, most speechmakers fail to distinguish between runaway inflation of the sort that swept Germany after World War II, and that now has Chile and Bolivia in its grip, and the so-called "normal" inflation of 1% or 2% a year that has usually accompanied times of prosperity. Nobody wants runaway inflation. But many economists believe that the U.S. economy cannot grow and prosper without some measure of "normal" inflation...
Chained Lion. Poe was in the grip of Byronism, but as a Childe Harold he was handicapped. In his defiance of society, Byron had the backing of Newstead Abbey and of a hard, aristocratic realism. Poe fought blind. The search for identity was complicated in Poe's case by multiple miscasting. The gentleman, the lover, the adventurer, all cut absurd figures behind the back of Poe the poet. His sense of vocation as poet and fabulist never deserted him. It did not fail him even when Allan had him measuring yard-goods in the store, when he "ran away...
...with frosty blue eyes and arctic white hair, he dresses like Daddy Warbucks (blue suits, grey Homburg) and resides in manorial splendor on huge farms (champion Shorthorn beef cattle) in Ohio and Nova Scotia. His personal wealth is estimated at something like $100 million, and his hard-knuckled grip on U.S. industry extends over a $2 billion empire of iron and steel, railroads, shipping, coal and paint. Cy Eaton picked up his empire by lone-wolf feats of financial derring-do that have brought him more bitter court fights, proxy wars and Government investigations than almost any businessman...