Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tough town fabled for the lock grip of its Democratic political machine, Washington campaigned vigorously against the party organization and sought to write its obituary. "By today's vote the Democratic Party has been returned to the people," he said. "It is all over for the machine," agreed Don Rose, a Democratic strategist who worked for Byrne in 1979. "Washington is not going to rebuild...
...Dennis J. Kearney '72. The youngest candidate at 33 years of age, the Suffolk County sheriff combines excellent fundraising and organizational skills with a flamboyant campaigning style--his vice-grip handshake is now legendary. Kearney began his political career as a service coordinator at White's East Boston Little City Hall and served as a state representative for East Boston and Charlestown between 1974 and 1977 before his appointment to his present post...
...broad range of options available to the KGB is evident in its control of religious groups. Arrests of Russian Orthodox priests are rare because the party holds the mostly docile church hierarchy firmly in its grip. Protestant believers, mainly Baptists, Pentecostalists and Adventists, who refuse to register with the state, are routinely arrested and sent to labor camps. In the Roman Catholic republic of Lithuania, where clergy arrests might rouse nationalist feelings, three priests have been killed since October 1980 under suspicious circumstances; one was apparently pushed into the path of a speeding truck. Thousands of Soviet Jews who have...
Automakers also are being helped by renewed customer interest in larger cars, on which they make more money, spurred partly by the weakening in gasoline prices as the OPEC cartel loses its grip. Rust also is Detroit's friend: more and more cars in the U.S. auto fleet are older ones (average age: seven years) and will need to be replaced sooner or later. This year will not be a great one for Detroit. But at last there seems to be cause for believing that good times, if not around the next bend, could be around the one after...
...That big old mahogany armchair is practically antique, but it still works. First used in 1890, it is the world's oldest and most prodigious electric chair: 695 convicted men and women died in its grip, nearly one a month for the better part of a century. For most of those years it was housed at Sing Sing, contributing to that place's hellhole notoriety. Now it squats on the fourth floor of Green Haven prison in New York...