Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...self-portrait of America . . . Into that portrait go all their inherited traditions,' the clashings of different economic, social and sectional interests; the tensions of race, religion and color, as well as the strivings toward tolerance and Americanization; the transitions of aging and rising generations, the tenacious grip of memories of the past; the ferments of hopes for the future.-Samuel Lubell in The Future of American Politics...
...have already torn up several pages of opening paragraphs for this review because they sounded like press releases, and have also firmly dismissed one effort which assaulted Elinor Hughes in immoderate language for remaining unruffled in the face of this movie. I must get a grip on myself...
...Communist Choibalsan died in the Kremlin hospital last January, but Moscow planned to keep a firm grip on the country he created. When the new Premier, U. Tsedenbal, arrived in Moscow last August, he was received with honors equal to those given Chinese Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. At the airport to shake the Premier's hand was Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky. Tsedenbal and the Russians went into a huddle and called a play calculated to dissolve any lingering impression that Outer Mongolia had traditional attachments to China...
...Polish-American audience that Eisenhower's American Legion speech had "aroused speculation here and abroad that if he were elected, some reckless action might ensue in an attempt to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe from Soviet tyranny." Stevenson tore into this straw man, saying that the Soviet grip "upon your friends and relatives cannot be loosened by loose talk or idle threats [or] by starting a war which would lead to untold suffering." Toward the end of his speech. Stevenson said that he did not interpret Eisenhower's words in this warlike way but rather...
...shallows of Nushagak Bay-a small (one-ton) beluga whale, come in to feed on salmon. It was not the first whale which had shied away from their "stethoscope": in earlier efforts the hunters had been unsuccessful. This time a husky cannery worker got a good grip on the patient : he drove home a pair of brass-headed harpoons wired to a portable electrocardiograph...