Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grasped my hand in a bony grip, and magically we were whisked into the air. "We are taking a trip through time and space to show you how money is made and why Harvard needs all of it," he said, anticipating my question. Instantaneously we appeared in the printing room of the U.S. mint...
That's the price he paid so that he might now say, with full professorial sway, what in some other fellow's mouth would be small-minded. And he has the audacity to suggest that anyone who would question what he believes is in the grip of an unspeakable sickness. If the rest of us defer because of Kilson's title, or because of the stylish prefixes he uses, we'll pay a price...
Sixty years ago, Bobby Jones never mentioned dispersion factors. He kissed his putter and called her Calamity Jane. "Sixty years ago," says Gene Sarazen, still slickered down and knickered up and still playing golf at 86, "I had a rotten grip. If you ask me, that's why there are so many excellent players today. A good grip is like a solid hinge on an oak door." Sarazen goes back to hickory sticks that required shellacking in the rain, and is amused by the '80s fashion, which encompasses titanium shafts, tungsten fibers, beryllium-copper, manganese-bronze and high-modulus graphite...
...Ferrel described an incident last year where a young man grabbed an outdoor elevator at the Pier 66 Hotel. He rode it up to the sixth floor, lost his grip, and fell to his death...
Trouble continued this week across Central America. In El Salvador, Communist rebels disrupted national elections by destroying power lines, kidnapping local officials, and threatening terrorist attacks on innocent civilians. And notwithstanding his offer to step down as armed forces chief, Gen. Manuel Noriega still maintains his grip on the reins of power in Panama--a country where the once-familiar "Yanqui go home" has now become "Noriega go home...