Word: grips
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...bottom line is that this is an incumbent President who never lost his grip," says one Mondale aide. White House strategists say that the President was shaken only once, when he stumbled in the first debate. Otherwise Reagan has been able to float along, sounding broad themes, flexing the power of his office, and reinforcing his image as a strong leader. Rather than outline what he would try to do in the next four years, he contrasts his first-term record against the "Carter-Mondale" Administration. He asks voters, "Are you better off than you were four years...
Love in this sprightly, misanthropic comedy assumes two basic guises: Priscilla's death grip on her family as a vehicle for social survival and Hughie's foolish infatuation. Mainly it is betrayal that makes Wilson's fictional world go round. Feathers deceives Mrs. Blore by exploiting her pillow talk in a sensational and highly profitable exposé of her husband. Derek Blore, the Right Honorable Member for Wheat-bridge East, got the ball rolling with furtive visits to a prostitute named Bernadette for his ritual whipping. Blore enjoyed fancying himself a naughty schoolboy, a harmless diversion were...
Almost from the start of their talk, one signal came through to Reagan loud and clear. It was that Gromyko had no signal to send at all. No message in his eyes. No meaning in his grip. No words that held promise for any kind of agreement. Gromyko's presence in the White House was the only hint that Soviet-U.S. relations might be changing...
...carry considerable weight. Without apparent effort it eases past the conventions of simple realism toward deadpan comedy and social panorama. Young Hearts Crying could stand as a definitive portrait of a man and woman, maturing in the 1940s, who spend the next three decades trying to get a grip on dwindling dreams that will not die and who have to settle down and, finally, just settle...
...Russia is a modern state which has struggled out of the grip of medievalist in scarcely a century, has promised its cautious and hardy citizens national security, law and order, cradle to grave welfarism, and has delivered on those promises. This is a society notable for stability amidst hardship...