Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camera slung over shoulder, baseball cap planted on head) wandered by, Mr. R. Campbell, (blue blazer, red Philip Morris crest) grabbed him, twisted his arm behind his back, and asked "May I help you?" "I'm looking for the tour," the tourist replied logically, adding that a more relaxed grip would aid him as well. "But you're not in the right area. And you have a camera. Have you been taking any derogatory pictures?" Mr. Campbell asked. The tourist hadn't taken any pictures at all, much less any that would cast a dim light on the "world...
...just 15 months, President Chun Doo Hwan has consolidated his political grip on South Korea to a degree that nearly rivals that of his assassinated predecessor, Strongman Park Chung Hee. Two weeks ago, Chun's Democratic Justice Party swept to a healthy majority-151 seats -in the country's 276-member National Assembly. After formally taking office last August, the tough former general first tightened, then abolished martial law, launched an anticorruption campaign, and promulgated a new constitution. He spared the life of Dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung, an act that contributed to the success of Chun...
Time had finally become a tangible dimension for her. Before the last week, it was merely an abstract dimension measured by movements in space. But now, she could feel a grip that was dry and hard and held her fast. Afternoons were like that--minutes seemed like hours, while she waited for a flash of inspiration that never came to rescue her. At night, time was slippery, and she could move and think freely. By 7 a.m. she had written half the 25-page conclusion. It was the evening and the morning of the first all-nighter...
...there any hint about Brezhnev's eventual successor. The cult of personality that surrounds the ailing leader may have reached its apogee at the congress. But his iron grip on the helm may doom the Kremlin to a nasty power struggle after his passing. "They are postponing the day of succession to the point that it will now be a blowup, rather than a gradual shift," predicts William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
When lies come true, there are not too many places where one can get a grip on life. The idea of time in black writing, for example, of time as an index of progress, or as a context of history, has either no meaning or a dangerous one (Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, Invisible Man, struggles to escape from time...