Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Daniel Tosteson the dean tries to get a grip on the school he heads as well as the affiliated hospitals, Tosteson the scientist is trying to keep a hand in scientific research. He is an authority on biological membranes, and although he now has little time to spend in the lab he directs a research team that includes his wife, Magdalena T. Tosteson. Studying red blood cell membranes, the group is exploring possible links between manic depressive disorders and anomalies in individuals' red cell membranes...
Playing two distinctly unattractive characters, Cronyn and Tandy keep an unfailing grip on the audience not by the characters that they portray but with how they interact in flawless craftsmanship. Their words, gestures, voices and facial expressions are like the serves, volleys, lobs and smashes of a championship tennis match. They score 6-love in a play that is stalemated at deuce...
Even on the first of the one-a-day flights in DC-10 jumbos, some seats were empty, and later some planes took off with only a third of the 345 seats filled. Yet at minimum, little Laker Airways (eleven jets) has broken the iron grip of the International Air Transport Association (I ATA) on transatlantic pricing* and prodded the industry's giants into offering competitive fares that are lower than they ever thought they would go. Pan Am and TWA actually beat Laker into the bargain-basement blue yonder by eleven days, selling stand-by seating on regular...
...possessing a rapidly expanding, booming economy. The U.S. may have to "normalize" relations with China, but, Kondracke writes, it should keep in mind that if China is the force with which we have to deal, "perhaps Taiwan ought to be." Kondracke seems to ignore blithely the Kuomintang's firm grip on the Taiwanese; had he bothered to speak to any of the workers on the island--as he clearly didn't --Kondracke might have seen another side of the Taiwanese economic "miracles." Such as, for instance, low wages and an exploited people, a repressive government that represents a small elite...
...first cases were reported in Syria and were followed quickly by others in Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran. By last week, almost the entire Middle East was in the grip or under the threat of an ancient and dreaded scourge: cholera. Thousands of cases and scores of deaths were registered, but the official figures in several countries were deliberately understated-for reasons of national pride, trade and tourism. Says Dr. Reinhard Lindner, a World Health Organization (WHO) communicable disease expert: "Cholera is the hush-hush disease of our time. It bears the stigma of dirt and ignorance...