Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Currently on top of the Ivy League standings after its clutch victories this past weekend, the Crimson hopes to get an even stronger grip on its lead with two crucial conference games on Friday and Saturday...
...coma is not to be without some kind of consciousness. Mine was intensely vivid and took the form of a series of hallucinations, from whose grip I could not awake. They were protracted and obsessive dreams that went on for several weeks. To take only one of them: for years I had been struggling with an unfinished book about Goya. Now I found myself in a late 18th century madhouse, clearly designed by Goya himself--I knew that from its gloomy architecture--outside Seville. I had tubes running into my lungs and stomach, which I would have torn...
...days, with technology allowing man almost complete coverage of the globe, Antarctica in winter provides one of the few remaining impenetrable frontiers. Just like the public fascination with the polar exploits of Scott and Amundsen at the turn of the century, the frozen continent continues to find ways to grip the imagination...
After beating No. 9 BYU in a last-minute thriller on Monday afternoon to extend its unbeaten streak to five games, the Harvard women's soccer team (6-1-1, 3-0 Ivy) looks to gain an even stronger grip on the top spot in the Ivy League standings as it visits Cornell Saturday afternoon...
...Even as China's leaders become communist in name only, they have no intention of letting go of their tight grip on the reins of power. The experience of South Korea, Indonesia and even Taiwan shows that the expansion of prosperity under the tutelage of authoritarian regimes tends to cultivate the seeds of democracy. But the process can take decades. And it'll be a bumpy ride...