Word: claspings
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...next day a Monreale jeweler was murdered in his shop-only five minutes after Giuseppe Quartuccio had been seen giving him the Mafia's classic goodbye kiss on each cheek. Asked about the ominous embrace, Quartuccio said sadly, "My friend? He had the courage to console me and clasp me after the terrible event." In the next four weeks, two brothers of the slain jeweler were gunned down in the wholesale vegetable market, two 20-year-old suspected Mafiosi were shot dead in Piazza Don Bosco, and two others disappeared...
...fluid. Stewart and Margulis do not know what the syringes contained, but they observed the effects: Hughes would become drowsy and incoherent. His drugs, "my medication," were kept in a metal box that was always taken with him. Whenever he was flying from one hideaway to another, Hughes would clasp a Kleenex box containing his syringe and would take several shots in a five-or six-hour period...
President Ford has not personally accepted any of the gifts, but he has admired many and, in the case of one ambitious project, made a contribution-a tie clasp. The trinket will go into a 25-ton, 10½-ft.-tall "Children's Freedom Bell" that the Jaycees of Pfafftown, N.C. (pop. 600), plan to cast and erect on an island in the Anacostia River, near Washington...
...clasp the moon in the ninth...
...just been more graphic. Instead of referring vaguely to pointy-headed pencil-pushers on the Potomac, the Birchers never miss the chance in their literature to say that endless waves of rules and regulations, paperwork, and forms to fill out are tentacles of central government reaching out to clasp Americans in warm, dark totalitarianism...