Word: clasped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial from the New York Herald Tribune remarking how wrong it was for Governor Bartolome Vargas Lugo of the State of Hidalgo to seize a $300,000 cement plant from its British owners (TIME, June 6). For once it seemed that Wall Street and Mexico City could enthusiastically clasp hands, but the circumstances were very special...
...that moment. Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, was strolling into the lobby. Prime Minister MacDonald, himself a Socialist,† held out his hand to clasp that of Comrade Litvinov right warmly-never thinking of the impossible position in which this placed Mrs. Stimson. She, flushing, quit Scot MacDonald's side and beat a hasty retreat to Statesman Stimson whose State Department does not recognize the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...Widow Caraway behaves as her husband did in the Senate, she will seldom sit down in her seat. Instead she will clasp her hands behind her back and pace, shoulders hunched, up & down the aisles, back & forth in front of the lounges along the Chamber's rear wall. She will purse her lips, frown as though deep in thought, halt now & then to fix some speaking Senator with a sharp, doubtful glance. From time to time she will address the Chair to interject some comment, acid-humorous in intent-for her husband was the Senate's conscientious sarcastigator...
...President prepared last week to clasp hands with Premier Pierre Laval (see p. 18), a gentleman whose strong displeasure he incurred four months ago by asking that France accept at once the Hoover Moratorium (TIME, June...
Like two perspiring miners pickaxing toward each other from opposite sides of a stone wall were President Herbert Hoover and Premier Pierre Laval of France last week. They yearned, they slaved to clasp hands. From day to day the lessening thickness of the wall of disagreement could be measured in millions of dollars...