Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they were held as political pawns by their Hutu captors. The U.S. and the U.N. chose to respond to human suffering and not to the continuing war between Hutu and Tutsi forces--which holds no interest for Westerners. If the humanitarian mission had gone ahead without breaking the Hutu grip and sending the refugees home, another wave of agony was almost certain to convulse them in a few weeks or months. Now if the Hutu militants have lost their control, there may no longer be any humanitarian crisis in Zaire requiring international military response. That is fortunate for the refugees...
...they are not in religious orders; they're professors at secular Columbia. But they are caught in the grip of a really dumb idea. He thinks all his problems in life derive from his inability to stay out of the beds of sexually desirable but otherwise destructive women. He decides instead to form a companionate liaison with a woman who is his mental equal, but is otherwise--how to put this gently?--a bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married his resistance to her will break...
MOVIES . . . THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES: Two Columbia professors, Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) and Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand), are caught in the grip of a really dumb idea. He thinks all his problems derive from his inability to stay out of the beds of sexually desirable but otherwise destructive women. He decides instead to form a companionate liaison with a woman who is his mental equal, but is otherwise -- how to put this gently? -- a bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married, his resistance...
...violation" has occurred. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor added that the innocence standard must be "extraordinarily high" so federal courts won't be "deluged with frivolous claims." As early as 1986, the late Justice Thurgood Marshall complained that this trend left death-row petitioners in "an increasingly pernicious vise grip...
While the Democrats made modest gains in the House, the GOP managed to retain its majority, while actually tightening its grip in the Senate by picking up two additional seats...