Word: grips
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...within two hours, we scooped up the most pitiful of the wounded, a little eight-year-old boy with two bullet holes in his mangled right leg, put him in the back seat of the car and rushed back to Phnom-Penh. All the way, he kept a tight grip on Allman's hand; it was the only way we knew he was still alive. We dropped him off at the French hospital...
After three years of iron-fisted rule, Greece's military junta suddenly seemed to be relaxing its grip. A total of 332 political prisoners were unexpectedly released from jail en masse. Twenty-seven men and women convicted of participating in a bomb plot that rocked Athens last summer were given lighter-than-expected sentences. A hand-picked senate of 50 men from various income levels and occupations was being formed to advise Premier George Papadopoulos and his colleagues...
...grip tightened on the box of Cap'n Crunch, and I went to sit down. But there were no empty scats, 5:24 a.m. and I have to stand on the subway! At first, I was outraged, but then my ire mellowed into a bewilderment that all these people were actually on their way to work before...
...perhaps centuries what kind of country America really is. How America deals with them, and therefore with itself, will show it to be either the country seen by its bitter critics- selfish and oppressive. Or else the country seen by its defenders- greatly troubled but still in the grip of its original moral purpose and promise. It may be the black man's role not only to fight for his rightful share of his heritage, but to recall white Americans to their own sense of conscience and destiny...
...crystals alter their beautiful structure under the influence of wind, temperature change, icy vapors and the weight of fresh snow, they may lose their ability to interlock. They degenerate into coarser, larger crystals and sometimes even into lumps of ice. Such "old" snow cannot maintain a good grip on the soil or underlying layers of snow. The slightest disturbance may tear it free: the sonic boom of a passing aircraft, the stresses created by a pair of skis...