Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tests on 50 patients, the pneumatic arm enabled amputees to make up to a dozen different movements. They are able to eat and drink with normal utensils, grasp an object firmly or gently. Some can type, use keys, write with a pen. The new arm costs between $357 and $600, including the cost of a three-to four-week course in adjustment at the Heidelberg University Clinic. Chief disadvantage: depending on how often the limb is used, the supply of carbon dioxide has to be renewed every two days to two weeks...
...possible." He had spoken of living on three levels: soldierly, meditative and creative. Soldiering was to him "a complete dream act." Meditating was "perhaps closer to true experience." Creating was "an unconscious growing and going towards a goal, the sprouting of art ... a seed that one must not grasp rudely." Now he was 36. and in the final hour of his life. A shrapnel burst from French guns crushed the seed forever...
...restaurant table with one queenly swipe of her forearm. When he left her for Ingrid Bergman, Magnani sulked in her flat. "I am a desperate woman," she announced. "When 1 suffer, I must suffer until my heart breaks." Nevertheless, Anna quickly sublimated sorrow into art. What another actress must grasp with her intelligence Magnani has in her blood. "Myself," she says, "I have so much boiling inside I had to become an actress. If I had not L think I could have become a great criminal...
...comparisons between Averell Harriman and Adlai Stevenson, and are inclined to look a long way down on Stevenson. Says a Harriman advocate: "I don't suppose there is anyone around who has had more experience in Government than Averell has had. The country needs someone with a thorough grasp of foreign affairs. Averell has it. During World War II, he may have met Adlai Stevenson [who was an assistant to the Secretaries of Navy and State], but he is not likely to recall it. The fact is that Averell was working on a much higher level. The people...
When the bill came to a vote, the right was primed to claim that its support of the government had created a new kind of de facto Italian coalition. But at this moment, Nenni demonstrated his masterful grasp of parliamentary maneuver. Before a surprised Chamber of Deputies, a Nenni Lieutenant announced: "We cannot allow the good parts of this law to appear approved through the collusion of the right with the center. We shall consequently reverse ourselves and vote for this bill." The bill passed 377 to 97. Nenni invoked his master in justifying his action: "We had already lost...