Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laughing, he took hold of me and began to rub me briskly, as if I were a child, or, rather, a woman he loved and did not fear. I left myself quite limply in his hands, and, to get a better grip of me, he put his arm around me and pressed me against him, and the sweetness of the touch of our naked bodies one against the other was superb. It satisfied in some measure the vague, indecipherable yearning of my soul...
...will not be easy for any Washington politician, including the newly incumbent, to break free of the capital's grip. Even Andrew Jackson couldn't resist the privileges of power. After his people had trashed the White House, he retained three servants who had worked for his elitist predecessor -- a French chef, a steward and a butler -- and began serving the finest clarets at dinner. He also hired a painter, who promptly began immortalizing his subject in heroic oil portraits. The rest is history...
...some critics say the University is still too decentralized for the president to have a tight grip on everything...
...mind of U.S. and North Korean negotiators when they concluded their deal two weeks ago. In exchange for curbing its nuclear development program, Pyongyang will get 500,000 tons of free heavy oil and growing ties with Washington that the regime hopes will help strengthen its grip. The U.S. is betting that more contact with the West will have just the opposite effect -- and that eventually the walls designed to keep North Koreans at home will crumble...
...ideology that has failed the country and that needs a massive overhaul. It is an ideology of big federal programs, a belief that the nation's problems can be solved once the government takes matters in hand. The result? Massive government debt and a strengthening of poverty's grip on our inner cities...