Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penn's two outstanding squash players narrowly escaped the grasp of Harvard's Dinny Adams and Jose Gonzales, but a deep Crimson team trampled the remaining Quakers for a 7-2 victory at Hemenmay Gym Saturday...
Small Windows. Recently, Peking has made it a point to proclaim its delight at the prospect of the U.S.'s depleting its resources in a major land war in Asia. That prospect may seem less pleasing today. Where the Communists almost had victory within their grasp last spring, the U.S. now bars the way and stands ready to repel any other attempted aggression. Unless Peking and Hanoi withdraw from South Viet Nam-and lose face throughout Asia-it is the Communists themselves who risk being bogged down in wars that they can neither afford...
...authorities," says Washington Lawyer Ronald Goldfarb, author of Ransom, a new study of bail problems. "The same powers in the hands of bondsmen are shocking and frightening." Bondsmen argue that they need their special privileges in order to prevent wholesale bond jumping and to keep their fees within the grasp of the average prisoner.* But in view of the present Supreme Court's concern for the rights of accused, the whole subject is likely to be retested...
Harvard couldn't put across the leader, and at 17:25 Yale's Dan Harris scooped the puck from the covering grasp of Crimson goalie Bill Fitzsimmons. Off Harris's stick, the puck dribbled faintly over the goal line to give Yale the championship...
...curving courses promised to be no more of a problem than parking a compact car; rescue of astronauts adrift in space became a definite possibility. A manned orbiting laboratory suddenly seemed more than an imaginative scheme; a space station that can be constructed aloft seemed within man's grasp. And the men of Gemini 7 who had blasted off eleven days earlier to spend a full two weeks above the atmosphere had vastly extended the known limits of human endurance...