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...houses and killing six guerrillas. During the 90-minute night raid, the Israelis also discovered what they described as a "saboteurs' supermarket" of arms and explosives. Once more Lebanon, which has been without a government for nearly five months and has an ineffective army, found itself in a vise between guerrillas and Israelis...
...Frigid Vise. On its long voyage the Manhattan must negotiate some of the world's most hazardous waters. Temperatures in the Arctic drop as low as 75° below zero. Howling winds and raging seas build up pressure ridges of ice that tower 30 ft. above the surface and reach 100 ft. below. Grinding pack ice can lock an ordinary ship into a frigid vise for months or crush its hull like a beer...
...prepare to take the required rifles from a U.S. Army supply train. In 1913, this sort of activity is already anachronistic and doomed to failure. Trying to fulfill the terms of the contract, the bunch get doublecrossed. At the same time, they are caught in the vise of their own simplistic code of honor ("When you side with a man, you stay with him," Bishop says). Mapache betrays them from one side while the bounty hunters attack from another, and they are all finally wiped out in the bloodiest battle ever put on film...
...white community is constantly siphoning money out of the black ghetto, but rarely reinvests it there" Jackson said. "Blacks must reverse this cycle, we must break the grip of the vise that is killing...
...Vise of Power. It was morning before most Czechoslovaks came face to face with the reality of the invasion, and by then tanks were lumbering through the streets of Prague and the entire country lay in the vise of Soviet power. The occupation force was largely in place: twelve Russian mechanized divisions, one division of troops from Poland and one from East Germany, along with token units from Hungary and a few from Bulgaria that had been brought in ships to Russia across the Black Sea. The Germans were prudently kept out of sight in the countryside, because Czechoslovaks remember...