Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enemies to create an air of instability. "We try to take these reports with a grain of salt. The Iraqi dissidents have a vested interest in getting word out that the country is destabilizing," she says. For now at least, the leader seems to be effectively keeping a tight grip on the country. -- Jenifer Mattos
...gymnastics, the 14-year-old national champion wears her accomplishments proudly. But Moceanu's ambition is tempered by an easygoing attitude and sense of perspective rare in one so young. While the U.S. media build her up as the next Nadia or Mary Lou, Moceanu is keeping a firm grip on reality. "I want a medal, maybe even a gold on the beam." She pauses, then shrugs and adds, "A medal in the all-around." While neither achievement would place her in the firmament of such all-around stars as Comaneci and Retton, if Moceanu can be her witty, outspoken...
Just as this anxiety and loneliness seemed to take grip of me, I would pass through the walkway between University Hall and Thayer, and there, as I rounded the corner lay Holworthy, and home...
King Canute had a better grip on reality. This nightmare scenario is not a hypothesis; it has been tested in Holland and proved a fact. Holland is the only jurisdiction in the Western world that heretofore permitted physician-assisted suicide. The practice is now widespread (perhaps 2,000 to 3,000 cases a year; the U.S. equivalent would be 40,000 to 60,000) and abused. Indeed, legalization has resulted in so much abuse--not just psychological pressure but a shocking number of cases of out-and-out involuntary euthanasia, inconvenient and defenseless patients simply put to death without their...
...them as inauthentic; that, by inference, most Christians' picture of Christ may be radically misguided. That their Jesus, in fact, "is an imaginative theological construct, into which have been woven traces of that enigmatic sage from Nazareth--traces that cry out for recognition and liberation from the firm grip of those whose faith overpowered their memories...