Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost an estimated $13 million, and could take 30 months from authorization through evaluation. If it works, technicians using nuclear devices as powerful as 100 kilotons may some day be able to process tens of millions of tons of ore containing copper that is now beyond man's grasp...
From this point onward, Bulgakov's novel fans out into a frenzy of manic action in which Moscow is virtually taken over by the Devil and his attendant demiurges. These take their supernatural business for granted, while, in contrast, many plain Soviet citizens are deprived of their Marxist grasp of material reality by the apparition of the Devil, and behave like lunatics. First the poet, then assorted officials, unhinged by their attempts to explain the inexplicable, wind up in the psychiatric center...
...Cornell players, with victory seemingly in their grasp, reacted violently and both the center half and the center forward were removed, but the call was an obvious...
Cornell played with the wind in the first of the two five-minute overtime periods and used it to go ahead. A high corner kick from the east corner eluded substitute goalie Jay Beese's grasp and twisted into the goal...
...speaks for a generation of Israelis moving away from the kibbutz and its limited life. Yael's horizons are broader than those of her kibbutz friends. She has been to New York twice visiting relatives. She is curious about the racial riots in the United States and quick to grasp the immensity of the problems underlying them. Already matriculated, Yael has no doubt about going on with her studies, and has decided to spend one year studying in the U.S., probably at Berkeley. Yael's generation is returning to the European of its own accord, demanding higher education...