Word: grips
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...board rooms of the great Midwestern corporations and in the private clubs where businessmen gather, Nixon is perceived not so much as a wicked man as an inept one. "Had he had a firm grip on what was done on his behalf, Watergate would never have happened," says Oscar Blomgren, president of Tuxco Manufacturing Corp. in North Chicago...
...desolate scene, a nightly occurrence since late September, could be a dramatic forecast of the future for other cities in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The Pacific Northwest is in the grip of a serious energy crisis, ironically brought on by the same mild weather that allowed the remainder of the nation to slip relatively easily through last winter's fuel-oil shortage. Because snow did not build up in normal amounts in the Cascades and Canadian Rockies, this spring's runoff into the hydroelectric reservoirs along the Columbia River was the lowest in 95 years. The problem...
Allen, a minus 36 handicap player who practiced 45 hours each week this summer, used the Chinese penholder grip--thumb and index finger wrapped around the handle, with three fingers behind the paddle. His quick offensive strokes symied the Crimson...
...standing just across the room, reading a magazine on the bar, completely starkers, and in profile view. I quickly shifted my position to shield my crotch from any stray glances, and I started going bananas. I began to shake uncontrollably--arms, legs, stomach--because I was in the grip of two incontrollable forces. One: don't give yourself away. Two: attack him. If it were possible to get a hernia while sitting down, I would have gotten one. After about five minutes of this, I got up, took a cold shower, and went back to bed with pajamas. I might...
...been ladled over him and his works in the past 20 years would make even Bambi puke. But Disney's really interesting side was not the fabled rapport with children (from all accounts, he was about as innocent as Bobby Riggs and somewhat less likable) but the grip of organization-first in his art itself, and then in the area of business and social manipulation-which made Disneyland and Disney World possible. He turned himself from a cartoonist into the Old Master of masscult, and from there became a Utopian environmentalist...