Word: grips
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...escalators. From the subway station at Sugamo, a neighborhood of northwestern Tokyo's Toshima Ward, riders ascend single file to street level at the pace of treacle on a winter day - a pace that allows for eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (based on the name of a district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink or red. Glasses are for seeing, not for being seen. The shoes...
...Downstairs, in the theater's press filing room, Al Cardenas, a Washington lobbyist who chaired Romney's Florida campaign, continued in the same frame of reference. "We think that the conservative movement activists are now beginning to panic about losing their grip on the Republican Party," Cardenas said. "They better start working hard, and they have told us they are going to have to start working hard...
...further nine years for Ole Kirk's son, Godtfred Kirk, to file the patent for the versatile "Automatic Binding Brick" with its interlocking 2x4 studs. The plastic bricks are part of a unique system: tiny tubes inside give the knobs on top of other blocks more places to grip. They hold together well but can be taken apart easily by a child. And consistency has been key: the bricks produced today have the same bumps and holes, and can still interlock with those produced back in 1958. Fifty years on and the Lego Group is the world's fifth largest...
...killed Eid? Neighboring Syria seeking to re-impose its grip on Lebanon? Al-Qaeda-related groups attempting to destabilize Lebanon? A combination of the two, perhaps...
...election. Most current contenders can be classified under the soothing moniker of “moderate”; indeed, one reason Ron Paul’s extreme views have found so much support is that he seems freer of the artifice that holds so many others in a tenacious grip. Under the present system, a show of emotion amounts to a crack in the gleaming, vapid exterior to reveal the hopes, worries, and humanity that underlie it. It’s disconcerting because although we like to admire our candidates from afar and know the intimate details of their lives...