Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lollipops for Whimpers. The crowd pressed forward again. It was not yet 8 a.m., and already oppressively hot in Houston, Texas' biggest city (pop. 594,321). Because it is just the right size, and in the grip of a polio epidemic, Houston was chosen by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for the first full-scale test of gamma globulin injections as a means of preventing the paralyzing effects of polio...
...officials are worrying over reports by the Public Health Service that cases are running ahead of last year, which was bad enough. Actually, it is still too soon to tell how most of the U.S. will fare this year. But there is no doubt that Texas is in the grip of a severe epidemic. No fewer than 860 cases have been reported there since the beginning of the "disease year" in late March (compared with 280 a year ago). Houston, with the rest of Harris County, is especially hard...
...pulse, measure his breathing, record through electrical contacts the action of his overloaded heart and his bloodstarved brain. A television camera stares him in the face, reproducing his sagging grimaces. Sometimes an X ray strikes through his body, watching the motion of bones and internal organs in the grip...
...living room in Charlie Case's house in Abilene and shook hands down the long, long line. To an Abilene man who had been in the homecoming parade Ike said: "Say, you did a swell job!" To a young man introduced as a veteran, Ike gave the big grip and shouted above the din: "You look like a damn soldier." To an lowan delegate who wanted to know if he was a me-too candidate, Ike was blunt: "If they say I'm me-tooing just because I want to keep the good things that have been done...
...right down before the glare of television cameras and the eyes of 1,800 reporters. Taftmen control the Republican National Committee and probably will have a majority of the Credentials Committee (see box), but when the credentials fight gets to the convention floor, Taft will need a cast-iron grip on his delegates to keep some from repudiating the Texas steal...