Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wicked-wise style common to Weill-Brecht productions, but Schlamme's dulcet performance enriches the irony Weill's Berlin songs depend upon. Her voice never sugars the music or weakens the words. Even at its prettiest, as an English critic once noted, "the force of her grip is the feeling that she is also fighting down a terrible melancholy...
...Premier? None other than Bitar, who promptly filled the Nasserite Cabinet vacancies with Baath supporters and tightened the party's grip over the army, thus completing a purge that had already sent into exile two planeloads of officers suspected of Egyptian leanings. Within hours of the anti-Nasser stroke in Syria, much the same thing happened in Iraq. There two Nasserites were dumped from the Cabinet and were replaced by more pliable fellows...
...vote. In addition to these charges, Hoffa faces a possible retrial of the original Nashville case, plus a separate trial in a federal court in Florida on charges of fraud and conspiracy in connection with a Teamster real estate venture. Despite these legal troubles, Hoffa still retains a firm grip on the steering wheel of his huge Teamsters Union. Only two weeks ago, he won a decisive victory over insurgent Teamsters in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware. A National Labor Relations Board election gave Teamsters in the four-state region a choice between Hoffa's union...
About the only group not consulted was Imam Mohammed and his royalists, whose grip on Yemen has dwindled from half the country to the mountain spine in central Yemen. Some 25,000 armed supporters of the Imam are still in action and still dangerous, but they are increasingly isolated, and short of fuel and weapons. With the royalists cut off from Saudi supplies, Nasser may well be able gradually to consolidate his gains, cut down on his commitments, and ultimately complete his victory by admitting republican Yemen into his grandiose scheme for a new United Arab Republic...
...failed to restore the monarchy, it helped in its negative goal, freeing France from the grip of the decadent Parliamentarians: during the six years of life remaining to the Third Republic, the A.F. fought any aggressive policy with all the venom of the defeated. When France fell, however, the Action Francaise fell with it; it was essentially parasitic, and died with its host...