Word: clasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down, despairingly putting a hand to his eyes as if saying to himself, "What imbecility! To risk my life for this!" General Challe, erect and unrepentant, spoke eloquently, if not always to the point. Challe thought his insurrection had been aimed at saving Algeria's Moslems from the clasp of the F.L.N. rebels...
...rare moments of privacy last week, fast-running Jack Kennedy was restless and tense. He fidgeted with his tie clasp, rolled and squeezed a magazine or tapped his feet. All surface signs were pointing to a Kennedy victory, but the Democrats had a good dose of down-to- the-wire nervousness over Dwight Eisenhower's all-out support for Nixon, and over the nagging question of the religion vote...
...comment, but a Navy man said admiringly: "They do write good letters down in Muscat." Fact is the British Consul General has little else to do, apart from requesting manumission for escaping slaves, who by tradition become entitled to freedom if they can manage to enter his compound and clasp both hands around his flagpole...
...American naval history." Of the fight for the South Pacific, he says: "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion." Sailor-Scholar Morison, who rode eleven ships and won seven battle stars and the Legion of Merit with combat clasp while getting the story, can say with Vergil's Aeneas...
...Lodge was the U.S. spokesman in the greatest forum of world opinion, the most public battleground of the cold war. And the U.S. public, watching on millions of TV screens, saw Lodge at work in that forum-battleground. At every stop along the trail, people swarm around him to clasp his hand and tell him that they admired his work at the U.N. During a Lodge speech at Butler, Pa. (where the old Nixon Hotel was recently renamed the Nixon Lodge), newsmen ran a spot check of the crowd, found that...