Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nikitas Sioris edged forward in his chair, his eyes fixed firmly ahead. his left hand groping eagerly along the breakfast table for a pack of cigarettes until an ever-attentive bodyguard quietly slipped the pack into his grip...
Moments later, Shepard's crewmate, Edgar Mitchell, followed him down the ladder. Twice the 40-year-old Navy commander hopped off the bottom steps. The relaxed grip of lunar gravity left him as exhilarated as a child in a playground. "Mobility is very great under this 'crushing' one-sixth-G load," Mitchell told Mission Control back home in Houston. Then, with slow, effortless strides, Shepard and Mitchell teamed up for the most ambitious program of lunar exploration ever undertaken. For nearly ten hours, the fifth and sixth human visitors to the moon crisscrossed their Fra Mauro landing...
...enough to sustain a decent life. Welfare Organizer Mrs. Johnnie Tillmon vehemently attacks the Administration's proposed Family Assistance Plan as "inadequate and ridiculous. You don't give people dirt to encourage them to work. There's not much incentive in that." On the other side, in the grip of inflation and rising taxes, those who pay the bill complain that too much is being given away to millions who are probably shiftless and lazy. In that view, welfare money means, as Ronald Reagan puts it: "A tax increase next year, the year after and the year after that...
Eventually, the Russians proved so crudely aggressive that few could ignore their intent. By then, the U.S.S.R. had gained a grip on the country-much more so than is commonly realized. Soviet agents had infiltrated most departments of government. Tito had been goaded into an ill-advised farm collectivization program that caused near-revolt among the peasants. The Russians had talked the Yugoslavs into setting up joint stock companies that clearly favored the Soviets, but persistently withheld the help toward industrialization that Tito expected in return...
...been a bestseller in France and Germany, or why Sajer so belatedly wrote it. Beneath its artillery-barrage surface hides another war-the struggle, equally intense though never acknowledged, between an autobiographer's impulse to confess and his impulse to self-justify. With a kind of death grip, Sajer holds on to his reader, simultaneously appealing to him for absolution and denying his right to judge. He pictures the reader sitting in an armchair by the fire, curled up in a comfortably moral position. Out of anguish, out of arrogance, he pulls him down into his hell. What...