Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of extremely conservative alumni, the Foundation has published a staff study" entitled Keynes at Harvard, which charges that the department is in the grip of a "Keynesian orthodoxy," and refuses to tolerate any kind of economics save its own "leftist" variety...
...Leopoldville airport and there boarded Ilyushins for home, expelled on orders from the Congo's latest government. Snapped one Russian diplomat: "We'll be back." But at least for the moment, the Russians' chief ally in the Congo, demagogic Premier Patrice Lumumba, had lost his grip on power-and with him had crumbled the Russians' promising foothold...
...Daily unprecedentedly admitted the possibility of famine "in certain areas of the country." In face of the hunger that stalks mainland China for the third straight year, even Red China's own propagandists could no longer manage to blink the fact that their country was in the grip of a major agricultural crisis...
...annoy a cayman (South American crocodilian). As the kits watch, the mother creeps up, whacks the tail of an enormous cayman, then darts back as it lunges for her. The game continues until the male jaguar takes over, feints past the cayman's jaws, gets a death grip and drowns the reptile. The jaguars lose no battles, although their prey sometimes escapes. Working singly or as a team, they kill a snorting peccary (wild pig) and a huge boa constrictor, and frighten a tapir out of its scant wits...
Psycho. Alfred Hitchcock's hand may be heavier than usual and totally immersed in blood, but it can still grip the spectator by the throat more expertly than the claws of any horror artist in the business...