Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand tensions will sweep across the Yale stands today. What will my girl think of me? Will she cast her blue scarf aside? Can we grasp onto something new that will hold us together? Maybe snooker, or books, or walks in the country? Could we go away, she and I, go away to some place where no one knows us? But what about that job at the agency? I mean, won't they think Yale isn't the same any more? That Yale doesn't demand to win? That Yale will play even if she doesn...
...poetry by Rene Char; the contralto Margery MacKay displays here an engagingly warm and sensuous voice. Practically all of the music moves at a furious tempo; this speed, coupled with the wide intervals and the high register of the instruments makes the specific pitch of each note difficult to grasp. This is also the case with Stockhausen, as Robert Craft points out: "For example, we hear a high, loud, staccato note in the oboe; that it is high, loud, staccato, and played by an oboe are factors of almost as great importance as whether the note itself...
Actually. Jean-Marie's wild and woolly cousins are proud to welcome an educated man; the fact that he flunked his exams is a technicality they fail to grasp. He soon finds himself writing letters for the adults and giving lessons to the children. Everyone takes for granted that his city ways of love-making must be the epitome of charm. As Jean-Marie is actually a virgin, much of Author Beti's humor is spent on his hero's efforts to keep out of one bed by falling between...
Even though Maine left them grasping for straws. Republicans found precious few to grasp in the primary election winds that blew in eleven states last week...
...strength and ferocity," and ostriches for "there keen sight and wary nature." Acting Zoo Director Vincent M. Mc-Namara promised that the signs would be replaced-when the zoo had enough money-but not, some thought, until the sign-painting creatures in the monkey house got a better grasp of spelling...