Word: clasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clasp, a Pat. Unlike the preceding week, Latin America's leaders seemed less reserved about De Gaulle and his suggestions for a Latin bond. The crowds everywhere remained heartening, pressing in to cheer el general francés with such enthusiasm that De Gaulle time and again sidestepped his security men to clasp a hand or pat a head. And that, after all, was why he had come -to be seen and remembered, to reinvigorate the French presence...
...have met him time and again at addresses in Manhattan that, according to the current city directory, do not exist. The CIA, he said, supplied him with all of the spy's normal accouterments: treated paper, invisible ink, a miniature tape recorder and microphone designed as a tie clasp, code books and a tiny shortwave radio...
...last week this essentially British cartoon character was appearing in 170 newspapers in 31 countries, including the U.S.-where, in a single month, his syndication has climbed to 90-odd papers. Wherever Andy is imported, readers clasp him instantly as one of their own. Said an editor of Istanbul's Hareket Gazetesi: "Andy is as much Turkish as he is English, and he is probably Greek, Italian and Polish too. Our readers got addicted to him in a week. As one of them put it, he is what every man wants to be in his spare time...
...doctors and nurses. She was anxious to leave, and at 10:43 a.m., Joe Kennedy's blue Chrysler limousine pulled up to building 3707 at Otis Air Force Base. President Kennedy entered the squat, lime-hued hospital wing, emerged four minutes later, his left hand firmly clasp ing his wife's right. The sun had broken through a grey overcast. They looked, remarked a bystander, "like a couple of school kids." Thus Jackie Kennedy, smil ing faintly, went home last week, after the birth and death of her son Patrick...
...approaching the rope barriers that held back the kids. Suddenly the screeching mob surged past the ropes and swarmed upon him. Rescued by policemen and Secret Service agents after a riotous struggle, the President retreated to his office shorn of at least two possessions, a handkerchief and a tie clasp. But next day the two Indonesian students who had grabbed the souvenirs did their part for U.S.-Indonesian relations by returning their loot to the President...