Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Udall, 42, recent conqueror (along with some 500,000 others last year) of Japan's Mount Fuji, professed himself shocked at America's scandalous flab surplus. "I was out in a farm state* a few days ago, and I found that the women generally had a firmer grip than the men in a handshake," said Udall, who need not worry about the crunch in his own clasp. "I think that is a commentary on conditions today." Something had to give before Marilyn Monroe, 35, could snuggle into a bikini for the filming of Something...
...sorry for every one of them.'' Patterson's failure to predict any rise in AMF shares in the near future was coldly realistic: together with dozens of other glamour issues that have hit bottom since last fall, AMF stock is caught in the grip of a stubbornly listless stock market...
Having decided after long and clamorous struggle that "the day of the small, family-held corporation is gone." Vivien Kellems, 65, Connecticut's would-be Joan of Arc whose "voices" seem to ring like Ayn Rand, sold out her 34-year-old cable-grip works in Stonington. But her vendetta against the Internal Revenue Service would go on. Renouncing a 1961 pledge to stick to her "knitting by the fireside" (among other reasons: she can't knit). Liberty Belle Kellems menacingly warned the bureaucratic foe: "I'm just getting a second breath...
...face the reappraisal that must follow the closing of the chapter of imperial power." Others had a simpler answer. Suggested the solidly Tory Sunday Times: "The country has become fatigued with the same faces expounding the same measures in the same cliches. The Conservative Party is losing its grip on middle-class loyalties, and it bores the public to a pulverizing degree...
...Through a Glass Derkly, the hero, who has just watched his daughter succumb to inherited insanity, announces that God is love. Since the young woman has lost her grip on reality in the presence of three who love her deeply, and has been unable to draw either comfort or support from their love, the sentiment seems somewhat irrelevant, but it is an appropriate conclusion to a film laden with unconvincing philosophies and illogical sequences...