Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the hour-long ride to Rockport. DiPietro sat with Hussain in the backseat of the car. She said that he kept a strong grip on her the entire time, while he testified that she sat quietly in his lap and at one time even kissed his neck...
Flashes of outright seriousness do surface from time to time, but they slip away too quickly to allow a firm grip--which is very likely all for the best. Dan Rice, from all accounts, was a sunbeam; by the play's end he is already half sunk in twilight, dimmed by the onslaught of "modern contrivances" and the newborn industrial mentality. Try to portray a sunbeam a hundred and twenty years later and you may get a gleam of warmth: some charming laughs, perhaps; and, in the end, a confused sense of pleasure and a done of genuine perplexity...
...surging interest rates were caused in part by the Federal Reserve Board's tight grip on the money supply, a policy designed to bring down inflation. But there is little agreement about other causes. Officials of the Fed blame ballooning budget deficits for kindling more fears about inflation and thus keeping interest rates high. Administration officials complain that the Fed's erratic control of growth in the money supply scared lenders into keeping interest rates high. Whatever the cause, most economists now agree that the unemployment rate will gradually rise into the summer, perhaps hitting 10%, before beginning...
Despite the government's token gestures, and its talk of restoring some of the freedoms won by Solidarity, the regime is not prepared to relax its grip. Says one Western diplomat in Bonn: "Now they prefer that ominous Communist word normalization, and it is growing pretty clear we are returning to a Poland of 20, even 30 years...
...lost in a fight that followed a poker game in Martinsburg, because it was acknowledged that William Bell knew every backroad and trail in the state. A commission he would turn down, because unlike most of the people of the new state caught in the grip of the third Great Awakening William Bell liked the feeling of insecurity, the feeling of not knowing whether he was north or south or blue or gray, and became a captain in a raiding force that was an adjunct to Stonewall Jackson's third cavalry, simply because he could make more money. After Jackson...