Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charge back--if, for instance, the city's newspapers return soon enough to allow Carey the extra publicity that always attends the incumbent, or if city voters abruptly decide to vote for one of the candidates instead of simply against one. But right now Duryea still keeps a firm grip on his 5-per-cent lead in the polls, and the governor still spends most of his time struggling against his own misanthropic image. And so out in Montauk, where Perry's people are readying the boats for a winter season of dark surf and sharp winds and streaming silver...
...researchers. Says Warren Vander Hill, a historian at Ball State who has worked on many post-Lynd Muncie studies: "First you learn to roll with the punches and accept things that were unacceptable, then you hold onto those very basic ideas about life with an even tighter grip...
...many ways it has been as startling a development as the Great Tax Revolt of 1978 itself. Echoing the worries of citizens-and not just those in the tax-pressed middle class-public officials from statehouse to White House are proclaiming that the choking grip of taxation must be loosened to let the underproductive, inflation-riddled U.S. economy breathe more freely and create more profits, capital and jobs. That sentiment was fully reflected at the Time Inc. conference. Sounding what might well have been the keynote of the proceedings, liberal Democrat Ullman declared that in its approach to taxation...
There is one thing that does remain clear: the Shah must go. For 25 years now, since he deposed the nationalist leader Mohammed Mossadegh with the help of the CIA in 1953, the Shah's grip has been one of social inequity and political terror. His regime has been one of the most systematic violators of human rights in the history of post-war dictatorships. This reign of terror has been materially underwritten by a supply of U.S. arms and military training--both because of America's economic interest in Iranian oil, and because Iran has been perceived...
...Second Baseman Bill Madlock, a Dodger nemesis (he has a .342 career average against Los Angeles). The fourth game went into extra innings. The Giants stayed alive on a hit by aging Superstar Willie McCovey, indestructible and still explosive at 40, and carried to victory and a renewed fingernail grip on first place by a brand new hero, 22-year-old Born-Again Christian Rightfielder Jack Clark. Said Clark, after singling home the winning run in the eleventh inning: "This was to prove to the Dodgers and the rest of the league that we're for real...