Word: clawful
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...this point in the drama Iago has not yet fully drawn out Othello's latent bestiality, delivers the line at medium volume and with his back to the audience! But he underscores the thought by extending his right hand overhead and pulling it down to his side like a claw grating on glass. That is real artistry; the effect is electric. And he makes the most of the poetry in the role; for, although a soldier, Othello is the most poetic of all Shakespeare's heroes, including Hamlet. Just as Richard Burbage was the great Othello of Shakespeare...
...With two crewmen the copilot went aft to try to pull on the slick, virtually gripless static line (two-inch wide, ribbon-thin nylon webbing) against the dead weight of Paratrooper Flugum's 170 Ibs. and the massive press of air. They could see Flugum desperately trying to claw at the choking strap of his helmet. His lips time and time again mutely formed "Please, please, please...
When he retired six years ago at 77, Big Bill Hutcheson was known as the ruthless dictator of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, a key dowel in the U.S. labor movement for more than 30 years. Before his death in 1953 he had bequeathed his claw hammer to his complaisant son Maurice, who finished construction of the union by bringing the membership to 850,000. cut for himself a slot in the loftiest beams of labor leadership-vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., member of the executive council. Last week at 60, Carpenter Maurice Hutcheson dodged...
From the other side of the moon I pulled up a chicken-claw...
...usually in fecal matter, an egg cannot survive unless it happens to be swallowed by an animal that can serve as intermediate host. Most eggs perish, but the survivors that find a home spring into a burst of frantic activity. Out of their capsules come hook-armed embryos that claw their way through the intestines of the intermediate host and form cysts in its tissues...