Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replies, however, there is disquiet, a nagging sense that somehow the country has lost its way, that its biblical promise to be a "light to the nations" has dimmed. The recurrent theme is that a nation born of ideals has, in its attempt to survive and flourish, lost its grip on the destiny that made it special; that Israel has become just another nation, flawed and fallible. In kibbutzim and Tel Aviv apartments, army posts and Jerusalem cafes, Israelis echo what one of their best-known novelists, Amos Oz, plaintively asked in his book In the Land of Israel: "What...
...little better with Stalin because they were allied in a great war. But Harry Truman, who sort of liked "old Joe" after Potsdam and tried to make him a pen pal, soon found there was not enough of a relationship to discourage Stalin from trying to consolidate his grip on Eastern Europe and starve out West Berlin...
...their concerns, isolation, or their true relationship to Argentina and Britain. Discontinuities are valuable because they point up the world's variety as well as the special force of its isolated parts. But to rely on them for truth is to lose one's grip on what is continuous and whole...
...Mississippi home town's annual Fourth of July celebration, she could easily become shrill in her eccentric quest, pathetic in her eventual failure. Hunter finds a sweet yet fierce core of integrity in this character that is not only very appealing but the source of the grip Beth Henley's play finally exerts on an audience...
...with the paratroopers who had been dropped near Ste.-Mère-Eglise. The British and Canadians had overwhelmed their three beaches and advanced about three miles inland toward the city of Caen. All told, the Allies had landed five divisions, some 154,000 men. It was a very precarious grip on the European mainland, but for this day, it would suffice...