Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brandt's popularity remains high in West Germany, and his grip on his party's top job is unchallenged-but he is now tired and tense. If the Hannover congress should fail to support him fully in the face of the Jusos rebellion, he might tell it to look for a new leader...
...ugly thing; this sullen hateful dead mouth; with no remembrances of the soft or ungentle touches it once knew from flowers, or snowballs, a night-stick, a stone, or clean linen. It knows only its tight evil grip to the harsh teeth behind...
...Gambril decided to concentrate on the 800-yd. free relay later in the program. Jim McKonica of Southern Cal won the championship final in 1:39.625 after qualifying sixth and barely reaching the finals. Indiana, with a 2-3 performance from John Kinsella and Fred Tyler, strengthened its grip on first...
...corporation that seems to have a grip on the Department is Data Resources Inc., a consulting firm founded and directed by Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics...
...Grip. Would a unified Western Europe be better able to deal with such problems? In Eastern European capitals, the worry is that Moscow will come to think so, and react to the emergence of a united, successful West by tightening its grip on the bloc. "So you see," explains one Hungarian official, "we're caught in the middle-between the Soviets' perpetual fear of capitalist powers aligning against them and the West Europeans' aspirations for union...