Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hospital was very accommodating. Cindy was wheeled into an adjoining empty recovery room, and her mother came in to join us. For a while, we were a larger family, taking turns holding the boy and letting him grasp and hold a finger. Memory says he smiled-though logic says that was probably not possible...
...length. Full of intrigues, setbacks, and mistaken identities, the tragedy seems almost comical, and certainly cannot sustain either the weight of seriousness or the burden of a three-hour-long performance. As written, the plot goes out of its way to lead all the characters into vengeance's grasp: secondary scenes--like the one which shows the death of the wife of Antonio, a nondescript lord--are tortuous and hinder the rest of the play...
...offending strip was boring, even trite, on the day in question, but its moral value was not for The Crimson to judge. The hypocrisy of such a stand for press self-censorship is terrifying indeed. The fact that Harvard students responded as they did suggest a rather healthy grasp of important issues. The Crimson has every right to be self-righteous, even trendy; but it should stay out of the business of censorship. Padraic J. Kennedy...
...seriousness with which the Italians approached the game of soccer is difficult for the North American mentality to grasp. This observer had a swift introduction. On a sunny Monday afternoon early in July Italy's beloved Azzuri (a name derived from the team's uniforms) squared off against the World Cup tournament favorite--Brazil--in the quarterfinals. Propelled by striker Paolo Rossi's three goals, the underdog Italians through sheer tenacity somehow upset Brazil...
...writer." Science Writer Martin Gardner, reviewing The Roots of Coincidence (1972), taxed the author with ignoring research that contradicts the claims of parapsychologists. Even Koestler's monumental and erudite The Act of Creation (1964) caused the eminent zoologist Sir Peter Medawar to grumble that Koestler had "no real grasp of how scientists go about their work." Malcolm Muggeridge dismissed the author as "all antennae and no head...