Word: grips
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...Mississippi home town's annual Fourth of July celebration, she could easily become shrill in her eccentric quest, pathetic in her eventual failure. Hunter finds a sweet yet fierce core of integrity in this character that is not only very appealing but the source of the grip Beth Henley's play finally exerts on an audience...
...back, out of the tide, literally, to redeem the Old. If there has sometimes been a messianic note in American foreign policy in postwar years, it derives in part from the Normandy configuration. America gave its begotten sons for the redemption of a fallen Europe, a Europe in the grip of a real Satan with a small mustache. The example of Hitler still haunts the Western conscience and the vocabulary of its policy (Munich and appeasement, for example). But when the U.S. has sought to redeem other lands-South Viet Nam, notably-from encroaching evil, the drama has proved more...
...with the paratroopers who had been dropped near Ste.-Mère-Eglise. The British and Canadians had overwhelmed their three beaches and advanced about three miles inland toward the city of Caen. All told, the Allies had landed five divisions, some 154,000 men. It was a very precarious grip on the European mainland, but for this day, it would suffice...
...Harvard. Even as he prepared to depart, however, he found himself in a familiar position: at odds once again with Administration policy. Top Reagan officials had just opened a new offensive against the Federal Reserve Board, arguing that it was endangering the recovery by keeping too firm a grip on the money supply. But Feldstein contended, at a meeting with reporters to announce his departure, that the Federal Reserve is "pursuing the right kinds of policy...
...Roman Catholic hierarchy for suggesting that the government should negotiate with the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas, who are waging hit-and-run warfare along the country's borders. Yet the generally desultory nature of the festivities was one more indication that the Sandinistas may be losing their grip on the popular imagination...