Word: grips
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Then Koufax's luck went sour. The index finger of his pitching hand turned white and numb; layers of skin began to peel off. Doctors decided he had Raynaud's Phenomenon, a circulatory ailment resulting from a blood clot in his palm. Unable even to grip a baseball properly, Koufax did not win another game all year...
Despite many personal details (Bertrand Russell, we learn, smokes a pipe and reads detective stories) and ostentatious visual descriptions of each philosopher's appearance (which the author obviously had to ask for), it is difficult from Ved Mehta's elliptical notes to get a good grip on just what the men are or what they stand...
...produce wise laws. Negroes have certainly gained a great deal through previous demonstrations, but they were dealing with local authorities, not federal ones; and they were often dealing with businessmen, not legislators. I am not saying that the myth is a valid one. But it maintains a strong grip on the mind of the average citizen...
...wicked-wise style common to Weill-Brecht productions, but Schlamme's dulcet performance enriches the irony Weill's Berlin songs depend upon. Her voice never sugars the music or weakens the words. Even at its prettiest, as an English critic once noted, "the force of her grip is the feeling that she is also fighting down a terrible melancholy...
...fairly common fad among ballplayers, who claim that it gives them a better grip on the bat. Other glove-wearers: New York's Roger Maris, Baltimore's Jackie Brandt, Boston's Frank Malzone...