Word: grips
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...away. His mother chased him down, dragged the wailing boy to the bathroom and forced him facedown into nine inches of cold water in the tub, his sister's body floating lifeless next to him. Noah came up twice as he fought for air. But Andrea held her grip. She then laid Mary in bed with her brothers, wrapping their arms around the baby. She left Noah...
...primal therapy through fiction, and the book releases you only at the last page from the awful fascination of its grip. A thrilling or sickening ordeal for you, dear reader. But for Mickey Spillane... it was easy...
...some of her work seems hastily composed. But in her best paintings, brilliant details combine to create a timeless monumentality. In The Haldi Grinders, a group of women engaged in a mundane activity, crushing turmeric, are obscured by trees, their bodies distilled into a clutch of hands that grip the crushing wheel; we spy on them and their vivid hands as if trespassing on a religious mystery. The young Brahmins of Brahmacharis, with their distinctive faces, look like so many who still sit beside temples in South India, yet they could also be ancient hierophants sharing a hushed secret...
...will actually visit his dream? Junker imagines both Nazi sympathizers as well as people who make the long trip to Sugar Creek simply to show how much they hate the idea of a Hitler museum. Either way, Junker says, he?ll greet them with his ready smile and firm grip. ?This isn?t about hate,? he says. ?Take hate out of it. It?s about understanding...
...week the PP broke off all relations with the government to protest what Rajoy called its "ignominious" dealings with the banned Batasuna party to negotiate an end to the Basque separatist terrorist group eta. But economic policy is one area where the idea of the "two Spains" has little grip. That is due in large part to Spain's abiding ardor for the European Union. "Everybody in Spain agrees that we have to make sure our fiscal and economic policies are in line with Brussels," says Antonio Argandoña, professor of economics at the Barcelona campus of the iese...