Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time; and they choked back any cheap taste that filtered through their insides. Women tripped from bed to bed as if to proclaim to the world, "My sex is my freedom." But this sort of man-hopping denied any roots at all, and rootlessness loosens the grip on the self. These feverish sexual experiments were born out of a headlong rush into a new found feminism; sex was leaping out of the self to escape...
...traps and occasional kidnapings of village and hamlet chiefs. While the North Vietnamese army has moved in additional men and materiel, it does not seem interested in launching a major offensive soon. Rather, it appears to be restoring what it expended during the 1972 spring fighting and hardening its grip on what...
...Pusey was in step with Harvard and social change in the fifties, he fell badly out of line in the late sixties. After the 1969 disorders and the highly-controversial bust at University Hall, Pusey slowly began to lose his grip on Harvard as the University became more and more politicized. Finally, Pusey abdicated all official responsibility; in the Fall of 1969, the Corporation granted Archibald Cox, Williston Professor of Law and fresh from a study of Columbia's 1968 crisis, wide unilateral powers to handle all University disorders. Cox, who would report directly to the Corporation, was to make...
...Lady Bird was at the wheel of her tan Lincoln, talking to TlME Correspondent Bonnie Angela and musing about her life without Lyndon Baines Johnson. Swinging the car through the silky bluebonnets and flaming Indian paintbrush massed on the banks of the Pedernales River, she tightened her grip on the wheel and forded the rushing stream. As she turned into the road that leads to the L.B.J. Ranch, the intercom attached to the dashboard dangled idly on its cord. Once it was the link between her car and Lyndon's as they roamed their vast Texas acres...
...Jeffrey Minkoff, orthopedic surgeon at the new Institute of Sports Medicine at New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital, believes that the best cure for tennis elbow is prevention. He points out that weak forearm muscles, an improper grip or a tendency to hit the ball incorrectly can all contribute to tennis elbow. He recommends exercises to strengthen arm muscles and lessons that will improve stroking and serving, thus reducing shock to the arm. In support of his treatment, he notes that professionals seldom suffer from tennis elbow;* the ailment is endemic among once-a-week players and hackers...