Word: clawful
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...retaliatory entry in the cat-book sweepstakes quickly appeared from bottom-line think tankers. A new entry which has a claw-hold on the bestseller lists is Cat's Revenge: More than 101 Uses for Dead People. It is the product of Philip Lief, 36. A book packager and author who lives with his wife and cat in Southfield, Mass. He presents human corpses-and parts thereof-that serve gleeful felines as life rafts, bowling balls and stamp-licking machines. His next attempt to amuse in the cat-dollar sweepstakes will appear in March, Cat's Revenge...
After gaining 40 yards, the Bruins failed to claw their way to a touchdown. Following a 20 yard punt, Harvard and a face mask call against the Crimson, Brown moved to the 11 yard line. Halfback Kenny Jones, finding a hole ran eight yards for a touchdown and brought the score...
...lively and visually far-ranging substitute for a droning professor. Quality varies. Says Iowa's Cantor: "At its worst, it is vacuous. But at its best, difficult material is portrayed very graphically." A segment on sensory psychology is literally a cliffhanger: a man uses his tactile sense to claw his way to safety while climbing. Afterward, diagrams with flashing electronic lines show how impulses speed along the nerve path from finger to brain...
Ronald Reagan, it is now plain, cannot cut taxes as he has and buy all the military hardware he wants. His silver tongue has not won the hard hearts of Wall Street. Older Americans, who adored Reagan as one of their own battling inflation, are ready to claw him to death if he threatens Social Security and other entitlement programs, which must be cut if he is to restrain federal spending...
...precious topsoil. Then, every week with uncanny regularity, gentle showers brushed the new shoots. The temperature never went over 100° F, and every evening cool air formed in the swales and spread protectively over the young plants. The moisture choked the grasshopper hatch. Tornadoes and hail, which can claw the land raw in seconds, never materialized. Out of 25 summer thunderstorms, only one was manly enough to ruffle the oats and alfalfa of Adair County...