Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slow-moving Spain, change of any kind is rare and reluctant. Yet, almost imperceptibly the regime is beginning to relax its iron grip on society. Since his appointment as Franco's Information Minister last July, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 40, has boosted the daily ration of radio news from four to 18 broadcasts a day and for the first time allowed Spanish listeners a comparatively broad sampling of world events...
...because I can't stop crying." The doctor goes on: "Are you crying because you're sad?" The patient replies: "No, I'm not sad." Dr. Diller tells such a patient that when he feels a crying spell coming on, he should grip his wheelchair tightly with his good hand. By some unexplained crossover within the brain, the motor activity of the muscles is often a satisfactory substitute for crying. These crossovers and feedbacks between physical movements and processes that appear to be purely mental are as subtle as they are mysterious. At the Philadelphia Rehabilitation Center...
Look, Two Hands. Last season. Thorn was back in school, determined to get a grip on himself. Rival fans called him "Psycho" and "Bugs," but Rod refused to be rattled. "No more hysterics," he says. "No more punching the lockers. If I had a bad night-well, I just had a bad night." Thorn piled up 688 points, sparked the Mountaineers to a 24-6 season and a berth in the N.C.A.A. playoffs...
...fact that 80% of the population live in feudal and near-feudal conditions. Hassan's task is to sweep away old traditions of tribalism, apathy and religious extremism without being swept away in the process. He negotiates amiably with France, which once held the territory in a colonial grip. In Paris last week, French and Moroccan negotiators opened talks for an $80 million loan, the biggest single French aid package since Moroccan independence...
Keeping Company. She voted for Romney. So did 1,419,000 other Michigan voters-a sizable segment of whom had felt the grip of the man's hand, seen the lean, jut-jawed face and the fire in the light hazel eyes-and heard his message about citizens' participation in government. All together, those voters, and those personal qualities, helped Romney defeat Governor John B. Swainson by some 78,500 votes-thereby ending a 14-year Democratic dynasty in Michigan...