Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some time off this week, not throwingagainst URI, so I felt real fresh and I warmed upwell," Crockett said "And [senior Jason] Keck is anincredible catcher. We were on the same page forthe entire game. I had the grip on the ball at thesame time he called for the pitch. I don't think Ishook him off once...
When Wittgenstein returned to philosophy in 1929, it was with the message that the rigorous methods of pure logic could get no grip on the problems of philosophy: "We have got on to slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk: so we need friction. Back to the rough ground!" Where before he had favored explicit logical rules, now he spoke of language games, governed by tacit mutual understanding, and he proposed to replace the sharp...
...grim subject of networked surveillance, maybe Orwell was just a big, mean, bring-down pessimist. On the other hand, we haven't yet seen an Internet society in the grip of a genocidal land war. Security videocams are already ubiquitous; they've become too commonplace for fiction to notice...
...attacks, President Clinton promised the nation that no American ground troops would be sent into Yugoslavia, although it seems doubtful that much can be accomplished from the air. Whether Milosevic will be deterred from his grip on Kosovo remains to be seen; it seems inevitable, however, that Milosevic will never voluntarily withdraw troops from the bitterly disputed territory that, while 70 percent ethnic Albanian, is claimed as the historical and spiritual heartland of the Serb...
Fierce competition from the "Big Two" has prompted Hawaiian Tropic to "introduce a new fresh look with elegant, easy-grip packages." Guaranteed to turn heads beach...