Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threatened general strike--called by some members of Poland's Solidarity labor union--reportedly failed to materialize yesterday, as the country's day-old martial law regime tightened its grip on the nation...
...much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...
...Prince's superiority over standard racquets rests in the fact that the best place to hit the ball is located in the racquet head's three-inch area of added size, an area which does not even exist on traditional racquets. About two-thirds from the grip, this critical spot would fall embarrassingly on the throat of the standard racquet, So, up to a point, the larger hitting surface improves players' game by 35 per cent, according to customer surveys...
...winter-time chill begins to grip New England--and Harvard's age-old buildings--University officials say they see no major problems with the College's heating systems. Newly installed control valves in steam-heated dorms are expected by Harvard administrators to end chronically sharp differences in temperatures from room to room...
...between George Bush and Ted Kennedy will melt into a secondary realm, only to be replaced with an equally ferocious and nearly as time-honored competition. Harvard will be jeered as the Kremlin on the Charles: Yale will be lambasted as Tory Blue. A sense of unabashed partisanship will grip two academic centers of power that usually strive for balance and objectivity...