Word: clenchingly
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...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...
...army units. Marines attached to the four-nation, 52,000-man multinational force that has been patrolling Beirut since the Israeli withdrawal from the capital have helped in the effort to improve the Lebanese army. At a recent training session, six Marines ordered a battalion of Lebanese soldiers to clench their fists and scream. It took a while for the Lebanese to catch on, but soon they were yelling exuberantly. Says a Marine corporal: "These guys feel great just going through drills with a hundred other guys because they never worked together in a large group before...
...making and keeping of an enemy lies not in his redeeming social value but in the peculiar passion he lends to life. There is simply no force in nature like him, none that can so suck the oxygen from the air, so tighten the skin about the ears, so clench the fists, sweat the palms, so press the tongue against the mouth's roof or stretch the nerves Like piano wires. His concentration on you is total. He cares more about your welfare than you do yourself, and he asks so little in return. Only that you continue...