Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through the course of his investigation we encounter an intriguing array of suspects, including a lovelorn mistress, a frail mother with a ferocious grip on the family, a wife with an overly loving relationship with her cousin, a bitterly estranged daughter with a lover in the Communist Party, and a brother-in-law with several lovers among the Berowne's servant staff--one of whom is both a decoy member of the Communist Party and an undercover policewoman...
Friction feed works like a typewriter, allowing the user to print one page at a time. This is especially useful when printing on special paper, such as personal stationary. Tractor feed mechanisms feed in continuous, fan-fold paper, through a set of wheels which grip the holes on either side of the paper...
Something has changed. After 30 years, revolutionary Hungary is now the fattest and freest of all the Soviet satellites. China has discovered the free market. Poland bends to the Roman Catholic Church. Even the Soviet Union is now in the grip of a wave of openness: vital statistics (like infantmortality rates) are being published again; a suppressed antiStalinist film is being released; plane crashes, submarine sinkings and other unsocialist occurrences are being reported...
...nonbinding resolution is the handiwork of GRIP (Greater Roxbury Incorporation Project), a group of black activists who felt that they were losing their neighborhoods to gentrification. Polls indicate that the referendum is headed for defeat, however, partly because several Boston officials have claimed that an independent Mandela would face a first-year tax deficit of $135 million...
...tried the grip, put two dents in my living room ceiling while practicing, and couldn't move my left index finger without discomfort for about a week...