Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand to do the honors was Nancy Davison, 24, a somewhat younger, prettier festival queen. She swung the champagne. Bonk! Nothing happened. Thrice more she smote to no avail until the kindly Mayor said, "Give me that please." Whereupon he swung from the toenails, lost his grip, and hurled the champagne into the Hudson River. "Forget it," sighed Lindsay. "At least I hit the ship," said Nancy...
...patriot. I love my country, its flag, and all they stand for. It is in part for these reasons that I work to see my country release its degrading death grip on Viet Nam. I cannot stand by and see America being lured into supporting a war effort antithetical to the kind of moral principles upon which the country was founded...
Since the Wallace fiasco, the two major parties have increased their already amply tight grip on American Politics. Except on the Congressional level, recent third party efforts have been soundly crushed. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. in New York, Dick Gregory in Chicago, David Frost in New Jersey, and Thomas Boylston Adams in Massachusetts have gone nowhere...
...actor, Vaughn gave a terrible performance. He was tense and rigid. His lips were set as tight as his fisted grip on the podium. In his outrage and indignation he overran words, phrases, whole sentences like a boy delivering an oral report to the sixth grade. But he was not acting. The students, who had been expecting a sardonic, composed, and eminently hollow spy, responded with a standing ovation...
...industry. Designated the AH-56A Cheyenne, Lockheed's AAFSS is a "compound" aircraft. Like a conventional helicopter, the single-turbine Cheyenne has a main rotor and tail-mounted stabilizing rotor for hovering and vertical takeoffs and landings. In the air, a simple twist of the control-stick grip sets the pitch of the rear-mounted pusher propeller for 240-m.p.h. cross-country dashes on the craft's stubby wings...