Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continue to view with suspicion. Some Vatican officials were worried that the Pope would be jeopardizing his prestige and that of the church by encouraging the hope that Poland's military government could be persuaded to loosen its grip. If John Paul's visit produced no concrete results, they argued, it could leave Poles in a deeper state of gloom than when he arrived. Ever present was the danger that the trip would release so much frustration and rage that neither the state nor the church would be able to contain it. Still, John Paul has gambled...
Played again by Vera Miles, Lila has be come positively shrewish on the subject of society's permissiveness regarding the criminally insane. She scuttles busily about making things go bump in the night, hoping to loosen Norman's new and tentative grip on his sanity and send him back to the asylum...
While the House renovations will grip under graduates and alter student life for at least three more years, the fire alarm routine may not. Warren F. Clancy, Harvard's superintendent of technical services, believes the alarm frequency will drop, following a customary "shake-down" period and growing familiarity with the easily triggered devices. He notes that while the number of detectors increased from 380 to 2227 between September and April, the number of fire alarms per month had only doubled, rising from 26 to 57. He adds that, in a typical month, the majority of the alarms are triggered...
...person system in Mem Hall. To the end he was a man of principle, refusing to share power with another monitor, but state-of-the-art proctoring at last had passed him by, Exams will be much more calm and controlled in the future without Mr. Test's iron grip on the microphone, but they'll also be a lot less...
...coach, Harry Parker can only sit and watch and wait, helpless on the sidelines. For the individual oarsmen, they can only grip their oar a little tighter, push their pain tolerance a little higher, and cock their ear a little closer to the cox screaming signals in front of them. And hope, hope that somehow all their training and hard work will help them jell together as a unit, enough to outdistance the other crews...