Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nehru can no longer afford to let China gobble up any more Indian territory. If India cannot throw the Chinese out, it must hasten its defense buildup to deter Red China from any more land grabbing. If it does not, India may find itself in the grip of a five-finger vise...
...head. The rope caught the bridge of his nose, ripping the skin. Resnick pulled it down across his throat, and as the killers pulled once more, he emitted a short gasp. For more than three minutes, the young men heaved like draft horses before finally relaxing their grip on the rope. Resnick's body slumped face-down on the sand. Jackie Spurlock, 29, quickly removed two rings from the dead man's fingers, methodically went through his pockets. The haul: a two-carat diamond ring, two wedding rings, a stainless-steel watch, worn gold Masonic ring...
South Africa last week was in the grip of a war scare. Who the enemy was, nobody quite knew. But the danger was there all right, declared Defense Minister Jacobus Johannes Fouche, who rose in Cape Town's Senate to cry: "Military action against our country is being openly advocated and secretly planned. There exists in Africa the potential to call up an army of liberation. In spite of threats we shall not yield. We must be militarily strong." With that. Fouche announced plans for the biggest military buildup in South Africa's peacetime history. The new budget...
Perelman's misadventures, his total inability to cope with any given situation, and his slowly slipping grip on sanity make hilarious reading. He is at his best describing his own efforts to come to terms with the world around him, a world swarming with zany people and beyond rational control. And though he introduces many engaging and diverting personalities, his best creation is himself--the craven coward, the hesitant man of the world, the would-be lady killer, who really just wants to finish reading Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic...
...slap in the face when he feels one. Since then he has attended Democratic conferences with decreasing frequency, presided only long enough to call the meetings to order and turn the gavel over to Mansfield. Says a Democratic Senator of Lyndon's legislative role: "As Mansfield's grip tightens, Lyndon is more and more out of it." But if L.BJ.'s Senate influence has lessened, his executive branch activities have steadily increased. Last week, with N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins at his side, Johnson summoned news men to his office, announced that the Administration would step...