Word: grab
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Floating above Seattle with my balky DataGlove, I'm inclined to agree. There is an irritating delay between the moment I tip my head to the left and the time the images move to the right. When I reach to grab an object, there is no physical sensation of hitting a solid surface. When I do make contact, my hand is as likely to pass through the object as to connect with...
Demands that the Boeing 747 be equipped with the latest security gizmos delayed delivery of the gleaming blue-and-white plane. It carries 19 television sets and more than 80 telephones. Communications gear will permit the President to grab information from satellites or to communicate with submarine commanders. The plane (the second one will be ready next June) replaces the Boeing 707s in use since 1962. The President's quarters include an office that converts to a medical emergency room and a dining room. It flies 7,000 miles nonstop and, with aerial refueling, can stay aloft nearly three days...
...allegation drew a hurt and incredulous response from the Kremlin, which asserts that it has only 193 "military specialists" in Iraq who teach how to use and maintain Soviet-built armaments but do not give operational advice. Just four days after the Iraqi land grab, however, a Soviet spokesman gave a different figure: about 1,000. The discrepancy aroused suspicions of Soviet fudging. U.S. intelligence officials supported an estimate of 500 to 1,000 advisers, but were convinced that the technicians were not at a level high enough to justify a big fuss, though naturally Washington would rather they went...
...wealth-producing resources -- the gap between haves and have- nots -- is fueling a regional crisis, a struggle with severe implications for the entire world's standard of living. And only the U.S., most everyone acknowledges, has the capacity to muster the international effort required to stop the power-grab of a vain, amoral crusader like Saddam Hussein. It appears that George Bush has the will and skill...
...they say acting study helps nonetheless. Kevin Kraft, 22, is a University of Southern California junior in his second summer as a clown and juggler at Hersheypark; he has also toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Says Kraft: "If I pretend in slow motion to grab for a nonexistent ball, I'd better have a real intention to catch it, which is acting technique, or the comedy falls flat...