Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main job has been to work out the problems that still bedevil production of the SX-70, Polaroid's revolutionary instant-color camera, and have cut deeply into the company's earnings. Unlike Wyman, McCune is not the sort to chafe at Land's tight grip. He has said in the past that he accepts Land's managerial motto: "You can do anything you want to-as long as you do what I want...
...slumpflation; in that case, the nation could suffer a prolonged agony of unemployment rates higher than any since before World War II. In addition, the higher prices for oil and natural gas that Ford plans could restore the raging inflation that is only now beginning to relax its debilitating grip...
...with his hand stuck inside his coat: more accurate accounts have it that he had a bad case of gout or rheumatism, that his hand was relatively useless. More morbid conjecturers claim that he had a bad case of the claw--his hand tightened up into a gruesome eagle-grip. But the wildest theory I've heard yet was that he had a thirty-eight inch cock. Of course this is mere speculation--nobody really knows for sure what compelled Napoleon to do all the things he did. But George Bernard Shaw had some ideas of his own about...
...land of Palestine seems to have a grip on its people that perhaps is unusual in history. Why doesn't the West understand the Palestinians' love for the land? They who have only been 26 years away, not 2,000, and who have not been scattered all over the earth thousands of miles away? Are the Palestinians less human? Are they less faithful to the land than the Jews...
...second and will need to provide firmer guidance in his third. At the same time, the most influential committee, tax-writing Ways and Means, remains under the chairmanship of Wilbur Mills. Although he survived his celebrated blowup with the "Argentine Firecracker" by comfortably winning reelection, Mills' grip on his committee has been seriously slipping. There is talk within the Democratic caucus of clipping the committee's jurisdiction or even easing Mills out as chairman. Next in line is Oregon's Al Ullman, a hard-working liberal, popular with his colleagues. Also likely to assume heavy responsibilities...