Word: grips
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...thrilling home win over Cornell, who during the seniors’ time in Cambridge has evolved into a perennial league rival, the Crimson sat in the driver’s seat entering the final weekend of Ivy play in March: win out, and it would retain its sole grip on the Ancient Eight crown. But a loss in a lackluster effort at Yale the following weekend forced a three-game playoff atop the league standings, eventually sending the Big Red to the NCAA tournament and Harvard home...
...underperformance, drew both international plaudits and curious visitors. Delegations from Chile to China dropped in to learn first hand from its turnaround. But just as Ireland offered a blueprint during the good times, so its recent stumble - and prospects for recovery - may offer lessons to others in the grip of the global downturn...
...latest signpost in the U.S. job market's descent arrived on Friday, when the Department of Labor announced that the non-farm payrolls shed an unexpectedly high 240,000 jobs in October, the tenth straight monthly decline, and yet another sign that the recession's grip is tightening. Overall, the unemployment rate surged to 6.5%, higher than most economists had been expecting. The report added to that gloom with a downward revision of September job losses to 284,000, the biggest monthly loss since...
...their error is racial prejudice—not the hateful, snarling, open bigotry that terrorized my parents in their youth, but rather a vague, sophisticated, low-key prejudice that is chameleonlike in its ability to adapt to new surroundings and to hide even from those firmly in its grip...
...After an adult Grogan admits to his parents that he hasn't gone to church for years: "I froze, then turned back. As I did he threw himself against me and buried his face in my shoulder, locking me in a grip so tight it was if he would never let go. I felt him shaking, his chest lurching against me. Then I felt a warm wetness on my neck and heard his sobs, his jagged gasps. The man I had never seen shed a tear, my Rock of Gibraltar, was crying in my arms...