Word: grips
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...padre then launched into a description of his work in the campo and how he was training a small number of campesinos to administer Catholic rites in the countryside. As he told me of his confidence that with a bit of work Catholicism would have a firm grip on the countryside, I felt a question inside of me itching...
...half of his 52 years on the force, thunders: "I abhor dishonesty among policemen." If he is eager to root out corruption, Rochford has landed the right job; last week he was named Chicago's superintendent of police. He moves in just when the city is in the grip of a police scandal of truly startling proportions, even by its historically gamy standards...
...predawn blackness of Miami. Young couples in Manhattan, armed with sandwiches and hot chocolate, invite friends along for an evening of gasoline shopping. Connecticut executives regale each other with lurid tales of mile-long queues and two-hour waits at the pump. Otherwise sane citizens are in the cold grip of the nation's newest obsession: gasoline fever...
Others see themselves as his victim. A prominent Midwest Catholic theologian received dozens of calls from confused people fearful that they were losing their grip on reality. A number of priests reported receiving inquiries from people who believed themselves possessed. After seeing the film, two young Chicagoans required hospitalization. "They're way out in leftfield," said Dr. Louis Schlan, psychiatrist and medical director of Riveredge Hospital in Forest Park, Ill. "They see themselves possessed by Satan...
...your mind is of slightly more questioning nature, and you need a name and an explanation, you could say they were like the baby twisters that hop over the Kansas highways in the summer. The kind that come with droughts, when the soil is too dry to grip the earth. There's a name for them in the encyclopaedia, but more can be divined...