Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were times, during the eighteen years of our collaboration, when I could not understand [Nasser] or accept his actions; but the love I bore him never diminished. He, on the other hand, had been in the grip of "complexes" since childhood and was often motivated by them; and he, as well as many of his entourage, suffered as a result...
Cornell extended its winning streak to 13 games and more than likely assured itself of home ice in the ECAC playoffs. The Big Red maintain a convincing hold on second place with a 14-4-1 ledger in the ECAC. Cornell also tightened its grip on the Ivy League championship last night by upping its Ivy record...
Unfortunately, Yale was not prepared to lose the game and their grip on second place. The cue went to Barb Liebowitz of Yale who re-enacted her previous feats, scoring ten more points for the Elis...
That may well be true, but Ethiopia remains dangerously unstable; without the Soviet and Cuban iron grip, the Mengistu regime could fall at any time. In Addis Ababa, as many as 1,000 people have been killed since November in an officially sanctioned campaign of violence that government officials describe as "justifiable terror." Every night members of a counterrevolutionary group of so-called white terrorists are slain in the streets. One day last week a young man lay dead on a sidewalk near the city's busy marketplace; to his chest was pinned a note warning citizens...
...TIME. "I had spent all of 1948 on the campaign trail with Harold Stassen, Harry Truman, Earl Warren and Tom Dewey," recalls Bell. "I was the only member of the Washington bureau who was totally ignorant of the case, and I felt none of the emotion that appeared to grip my colleagues who had covered the Hiss story on Capitol Hill. It was precisely for that reason that I was picked to report the trial." For TIME and Bell, the story posed special problems: Chambers had been a writer and senior editor at TIME (editing back-of-the-book sections...