Word: apprehending
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...profile case, and good basic police work went into resolving it," said Harvard Sgt. Kathleen M. Stanford. "I know we have the right man, and now it is up to the jury to find [him guilty]." Stanford and Lt. John Rooney spearheaded the Harvard police force's effort to apprehend the Slasher...
...carrying a copy of Hermann Hesse's The Journey to the East with him. The immensity of the country--its beauty and its filth, its holy men and its begging children--initially overwhelms them. And they discover that their reasons for going differ. Sophie is a hedonist, looking to apprehend reality through the senses: "I want to go to Goa and eat shrimp. I want to go to Kashmir and live on a houseboat." Matteo is disgusted: "That isn't India." So Sophie increases her intake of marijuana and gamely follows her husband from swami to swami...
...welfare bureaucracy" so often excoriated in their campaign ads. Yet when conservatives seek to undercut the very means of political competition itself--to systematically cut off their ideological opponents from access to advocacy--there is good reason for alarm. Bewildered by attacks on all sides, American liberals need to apprehend the broader import of Republican efforts to entrench themselves in power...
...Back in '76, they didn't have a lot of technology we have now." --Key West, Fla. Sherffs's Detective Jay Glover, explaining why police held onto the thumb of a murder victim killed 18 years ago A new test conducted on the thumb led the police to apprehend two suspects in the murder this week...
...Mistook His Wife for a Hat, for example, Nyman used a Schumann song, Ich grolle nicht, as the musical foundation of the opera to illustrate the eponymous victim's visual agnosia: unable to synthesize visual images, the man relied on Schumann's music to help him apprehend the world. In The Piano, Scottish folk tunes suffused the keyboard reveries that gave the mute heroine Ada her soaringly distinctive if wildly anachronistic voice: the result was a blend of rigorous Minimalism, frank Romanticism and the listener-friendly ecstasies of New Age music...