Word: gripping
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...back, out of the tide, literally, to redeem the Old. If there has sometimes been a messianic note in American foreign policy in postwar years, it derives in part from the Normandy configuration. America gave its begotten sons for the redemption of a fallen Europe, a Europe in the grip of a real Satan with a small mustache. The example of Hitler still haunts the Western conscience and the vocabulary of its policy (Munich and appeasement, for example). But when the U.S. has sought to redeem other lands-South Viet Nam, notably-from encroaching evil, the drama has proved more...
...Harvard. Even as he prepared to depart, however, he found himself in a familiar position: at odds once again with Administration policy. Top Reagan officials had just opened a new offensive against the Federal Reserve Board, arguing that it was endangering the recovery by keeping too firm a grip on the money supply. But Feldstein contended, at a meeting with reporters to announce his departure, that the Federal Reserve is "pursuing the right kinds of policy...
...Roman Catholic hierarchy for suggesting that the government should negotiate with the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas, who are waging hit-and-run warfare along the country's borders. Yet the generally desultory nature of the festivities was one more indication that the Sandinistas may be losing their grip on the popular imagination...
...navy blue Chrysler New Yorker pulled to a halt and the candidate leaped out, the crowd surged over wooden police barricades chanting, "Win, Jesse, win!" Jackson, smiling broadly, strode into the throng, surrounded by apprehensive Secret Service agents who formed a circle around him; one kept a tight grip on the back of Jackson's raincoat so that he could yank the candidate down immediately if any danger arose. None did; Jackson's admirers obviously wanted only to touch and be touched. A young man dressed in a dirty sweatshirt and blue jeans held his open right . hand...
Throughout the controversy set off by the mining of their harbors, the Sandinistas have refrained from a favorite tactic of the past: using the specter of imminent war with the U.S. to increase repression and further consolidate their political grip on the country. In fact, the Sandinistas were slightly loosening press censorship, and declaring their intention to proceed on schedule with national elections-criticized by the Reagan Administration as hopelessly biased in favor of the regime-on Nov. 4. Observed a Western diplomat in Managua: "For once, the Sandinistas seem to be handling the situation in a mature and sophisticated...