Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Korea with: "It might have been us." The swift and determined U.S. stand had brought them much encouragement, but later U.S. defeats brought doubt and fear again. Andre Laguerre, head of TIME'S Paris bureau, arrived in Saigon last fortnight, as Indo-China was caught in the grip of the wet monsoon, which had temporarily limited the scale of the civil war. Last week Laguerre cabled...
...alive. Jean goes out to Australia and gets her man. Any ordinary girl would have settled down and lovingly borne him a few nice children, but Jean is a more fearsome natural force. By the time she has done with her husband's district, it is in the grip of an industrial revival, soil conservation is breaking out all over, the cattle trade is expanding, new stores are sprouting like mushrooms. The only thing that saves the book from absurdity is Novelist Shute's lively discernment about people & places. The villagers who shelter Jean in Japanese-occupied Malaya...
...Graft and corruption are rampant; the national economy is sagging; the government of ailing, ineffectual President Elpidio Quirino has lost its grip...
...French career diplomat now stationed in Bern, Switzerland, he has behind him a solid record as a fighter pilot in the French Air Force, which he joined in 1938. His novel, written in 1947-48, shows the extent to which many in Europe had lost heart, and lost their grip on the beliefs that made Europe great, in the fifth decade of the 20th Century...
...speeds, and therefore cannot save fuel by slowing down, as when "stacked up" over a fogbound airport. These faults were not so bad in the case of fast fighters, but when designers tackled jet airliners or long-range bombers, they missed the good old propeller, which gets a firm grip on the air at even slow take-off speeds...