Word: clench
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...varying degrees, Pedro Joaquin's survivors came to believe that the ragtag band of rebels known as the Sandinista National Liberation Front might be the key to dislodging Somoza. When Somoza, stung by barbed headlines like HIRED ASSASSINS or TIME TO CLENCH FISTS, ordered La Prensa's office bombed by an airplane and shelled by an armored vehicle, the Chamorros lent the Sandinistas $50,000. Dona Violeta believes the money was used to fund the assault on the National Palace in August 1978. The loan was never repaid...
...side to side or a shrug of the shoulders. Gorbachev has mastered those gestures, and more. He may slice the air with a modified karate chop or spin his hands one over the other like a pinwheel, then extend them palms up in a gesture of vulnerability, only to clench them into fists a moment later. All the time his intense eyes lock onto a listener's. The eyes, he once told an audience in Prague, never lie. Much of his animation comes through even in translation. In a TV interview, for example, he may pause reflectively after a question...
...found itself locked in a philosophical battle with its allies over trade with the Communist world. It is virtually impossible, many Europeans observe, to clench fists and shake hands at the same time. In an era of economic interdependence, they argue, Soviet economic growth could lead to a more sophisticated, more consumer-oriented and ultimately more peaceful U.S.S.R. Some allies resent what they feel is heavy-handed pressure from Washington to keep up cold war suspicions at the precise moment when many nations are working to ease tensions with the Soviet Union...
human voice when their claws clench the phone
Even if Yale beats U.N.H tomorrow and Brown Saturday at New Haven the Crimson must take just two of its last three (Cornell, Princeton and Brown at Bright) to Clench the Ivy Division championship and the accompanying home ice advantage for the ECAC quarterfinal...