Word: vise
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...point is that as admirable as consistency may sometimes be, it is not the truth, and in a way it violates truth by holding the mind in a vise. Consistent people are often said to be most in control of their lives, but rather than possessing consistencies, it is their consistencies that possess them; and they probably are less in control of themselves than more erratic and volatile spirits. To maintain an unshakable view Thus the face of contrary evidence is to maintain a fiction. Thus a consistency need not be specifically "foolish," as Emerson declared, to be diminishing...
...hosts surely needed the cheering up. America's 2.4 million farmers are struggling to survive the worst slump since the Depression, caught in a vise of rising costs and falling prices. Though they are expected to chalk up near record crops of wheat (73.8 million metric tons) and corn (208 million metric tons) this year, the silo-busting harvests will only push low prices even lower. Since 1975, as farm expenses have nearly doubled (from $75.9 billion to $141.5 billion), net farm income has fallen. Profits, which declined from $32.7 billion in 1979 to $22.9 billion last year...
...Imprisoned for several days in a secret, soundproof room at police headquarters in downtown San Salvador, he was stretched on a rotating wheel, beaten severely and forced to swallow lime. The victim was also strung up by his hands and feet while his genitals were squeezed in a wire vise...
...Private hospitals in Illinois are trying to duck the added costs of caring for Medicaid patients by transferring them to public hospitals. At Cook County Hospital in Chicago, for example, transfers have jumped from 137 patients in July 1980 to 363 this past July. "We are caught in a vise," complains Director Elliott Roberts. "We can't turn patients away, but the Federal Government is backing away...
...needs to defend his honor by refusing to rat on his friends. By the end he has gently been led to the most terrible betrayals of self, friends and family who must now live under guard and threat of death. And so slowly, undramatically, have the jaws of the vise closed on him it is impossible to say when they started to draw blood...