Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spain has long held a firm grip on man's imagination. It is the land of mystery, a Gothic tapestry sewn together from strands of brutal sunshine and lustful blood, of tart wine and even tarter women. It is the secret of thunderous clouds menacing El Greco's Toledo; the acrid fire consuming the bodies of heretics during the Inquisition; the melancholy strains of a guitar played after a day's labor in the fields; the gnarled branches of the olive trees that cluster throughout the sun-beaten hills. It is the legend of the independence of the leather-skinned...
...Justice Fred Vinson died. President Eisenhower was under pressure to name a successor before the court convened in October. As Associate Justice William O. Douglas tells it, Vice President Nixon and Senator William Knowland went to Ike and urged him to choose Warren as a means of breaking his grip on California politics. In any case, Warren met basic requirements. He was a Republican and his philosophy and common sense "pleased" Eisenhower. Later, dismayed that Warren turned out to be a controversial participant rather than a bland umpire, Ike described the selection as "the biggest damn fool mistake I ever...
While two generations of Presidents have been concentrating power in the White House, Congress has been relaxing its grip, sometimes to the point of irresponsibility. Says former Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus...
...Among them: former Foreign Minister Michel Jobert and ex-Finance Minister and Common Market Commission President François-Xavier Ortoli, both class of '48. Below the Cabinet level, the school's 2,600 graduates hold many of the key jobs in the French bureaucracy, and their grip on the system is growing...
...more and more blacks are achieving the American dream of lifting themselves into the middle class. They have become as well heeled, well housed, and well educated as their white counterparts. Many have just arrived in the middle class, some are barely hanging on, some may lose their grip-but by any reasonable measurement, most appear there to stay. They have shown that, reports of its demise to the contrary, upward mobility still operates in America...