Word: clawingly
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...First he organized a new parish. Next he built a new church, one of the city's best. The passing years brought white to his crew-cut hair, and townsfolk of Szombathely placed their faith in him. The day after Cardinal Mindszenty was locked up, the Communist iron claw reached out for Father Koczan...
...posse fanned out over the frozen countryside. The hunted convicts sought shelter. Werner Schwartzmiller, 35, who vas doing 40 years for a murder attempt, chose Laurence Oliver's farmhouse. There he held the Olivers at bay until plucky Mrs. Oliver, firmly clasping a claw hammer beneath a capacious apron, worked her way close enough to bash him on the head...
...Parker and Pearl Buck. Acres and Pains, made up of 21 pieces originally published in magazines, deals sharply with such rural hazards as weekend guests, domestic animals, tractors and antiques ("Is anybody around here looking for a bargain in an Early Pennsylvania washstand? . . . Genuine pumpkin pine, with ball-and-claw feet, and a small smear of blood where I tripped over it last night in the dark"). Unlike some other city farmers, Perelman can make a profit out of the country-by writing about...
...king crab, which often measures up to five feet between claw tips and weighs about 15 pounds, is tenderer than lobster, less oily than crab. The crabs are caught chiefly in trawl nets dragged over flat bottom areas of the North Pacific...
...last fortnight Dr. Colbert and his assistant George Whitaker were exploring Arroyo Yeso, a gypsum gulch on Ghost Ranch, near Abiquin, N. Mex. Suddenly Whitaker uttered a cry of joy, rushed to the bank and pointed triumphantly to a small fossil claw. Dr. Colbert had got his coelophysis...