Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some point, according to a U.S. intelligence source in Honduras, the U.S. started to lose its grip on the entire effort and its goals. The F.D.N., for one thing, is interested not just in intimidating the Sandinistas but in starting a real war against Nicaragua. "We will start to pick up the tempo before December," predicted an F.D.N. official. "We will be in Managua by spring...
...crusher handshakes, then hovered over the shorter Kosygin. Convinced that eye contact was a measure of a man's determination, Johnson locked eyes with Kosygin at one crucial point. Needing a sip of coffee, L.B.J. felt for his cup on the table rather than release his visual grip on Kosygin, who finally blinked and looked away. Johnson thought this singular human triumph was important. Perhaps it was. If some day we ever get a glimpse of Kremlin papers, we may find an unusual report from Kosygin on the day he locked eyes with Lyndon Johnson...
...could not control. Sales, buoyed by dealers' hype, were brisk when the car first came to market in the summer of last year. Some 3,000 DMC-12s' were sold in the first six months. But by December, bad weather and the recession's icy grip had cut sales to a fraction of their starting pace...
...Rather than offering a complete program for getting America back to work. Newsweek gives a conglomeration of uncoordinated proposals--mostly unimaginative, mostly bad--pulled from an economist's grab-bag that would create more problems than they solve. The solution provides little good advice on how to loosen the grip of unemployment...
Ironically, the movie's most poignant moments center around the older Stetsons (Brian Dennehy and Elizabeth Ashley). Both Dennehy and Ashley are superb as parents caught completely offguard by their son's defection to a world of make believe. They cling together as they try to retain their grip on their own values which Danny's indoctrination into Homeland has shaken. Should they feel responsible for failing to provide their son with an idealistic, equitable world? Should Danny blame them for his vulnerability to the hypnotic world of the cults...