Word: clawingly
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TOOTH AND CLAW...
...took us about 15 minutes to find Laurie's cats. They were huddled under her claw-foot tub and they were reluctant to come out, even after being alone for a week. We finally corralled them, and left...
Sure, they couldn't hit. So what? They could hit just enough to scratch and claw and steal a run to win. Literally, a run. At one point, in games decided by one run, they won 12 straight. And then it came. A complete July collapse, followed by an August swoon, a zombie death march. Thirteen straight one-run losses...
DIED. JOHN OSTROM, 77, Yale paleontologist who popularized the theory that dinosaurs are linked with modern birds; of pneumonia; in Litchfield, Conn. With the 1964 discovery of a two-legged creature with razor-sharp claws he called Deinonychus, or "terrible claw," and subsequent work cementing his theory, he began a campaign, largely successful, to convince scientists that at least some of the prehistoric beings were not, as long assumed, slow, dim-witted reptiles but speedy, warm-blooded, carnivorous predators that had much in common with today's flightless birds...
...more of Bergman's despairing, exhilarating films. The old themes nudge you: death, and those who aspire to it; love, and how it sours; the inexorable decay of the body and the spirit; the need to reach out for others, and the fear that in doing so we will claw them, or be devoured...