Word: grips
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...friend Sonny keeps trying to tell him, his head examined. This is particularly true since their lunch-counter assailant is bent on eliminating them as potential witnesses to his failed crime. He is, as it were, the dark side of the force that holds Donald in its grip, a small-time hood whose fantasy is that he is a big-time Mafia...
...continue to view with suspicion. Some Vatican officials were worried that the Pope would be jeopardizing his prestige and that of the church by encouraging the hope that Poland's military government could be persuaded to loosen its grip. If John Paul's visit produced no concrete results, they argued, it could leave Poles in a deeper state of gloom than when he arrived. Ever present was the danger that the trip would release so much frustration and rage that neither the state nor the church would be able to contain it. Still, John Paul has gambled...
...friend's home and jailed for jeopardizing national security. Copper workers staged strikes at week's end to protest Seguel's arrest, halting production at three major mines. In an unusual television appearance, Pinochet adopted a somewhat more conciliatory tone but pledged to keep a tight grip on political activity...
Played again by Vera Miles, Lila has be come positively shrewish on the subject of society's permissiveness regarding the criminally insane. She scuttles busily about making things go bump in the night, hoping to loosen Norman's new and tentative grip on his sanity and send him back to the asylum...
While the House renovations will grip under graduates and alter student life for at least three more years, the fire alarm routine may not. Warren F. Clancy, Harvard's superintendent of technical services, believes the alarm frequency will drop, following a customary "shake-down" period and growing familiarity with the easily triggered devices. He notes that while the number of detectors increased from 380 to 2227 between September and April, the number of fire alarms per month had only doubled, rising from 26 to 57. He adds that, in a typical month, the majority of the alarms are triggered...