Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half Carrillo took advantage of a heaven-sent opportunity. Charging a back pass from Tiger fullback Gloria Hammond to goalie Kelly O'Dell, Carrillo found herself all alone in front of the net when the ball slipped through O'Dell's grasp. She forcefully knocked the ball into the open goal for the game's only score...
...text has some virtues, some manically funny apergus, such as the glimpse of reverent Yalies hand-washing the baby's diapers to pay for the pair of Mies Barcelona chairs, those comfortless icons of secular progress. But its flaw, apart from Wolfe's shaky grasp of architectural history, is that he looks with his ears. Architects tend to write manifestos when they are not being asked to build. Given the choice between what architects wrote about architecture, and what they actually built, Wolfe believes the words every time. This leads him into some strange fluffs, like his mistaken...
...fresh-men and a large returning veteran contingent, head women's swimming coach VICKI HAYS already has high hopes for the season. When a playful member of the men's swim team tried to throw her into the pool at afternoon workout one day, she evaded his grasp and said, "No one throws me into the pool until my team wins the Ivies....In a unique arrangement that is certain to bolster attendance at women's athletic games, roommates and junior co-captains of respectively field hockey and swimming, MAUREEN FINN and MAUREEN GILDEA have agreed to bring as many...
...standards of mercy, Jane deserved a quick and early death. In 1957, at the age of 40, she suffered a stroke that cruelly afflicted her with aphasia - the in ability to write or grasp the meaning of some of the simplest words. One of her doctors said of Jane's illness: "If you were to devise how best to undermine the mind of a writer, you couldn't think of a better means than this." She lingered on through cycles of recovery and deterioration for over 15 years, witnessing the success of Paul as a novelist - not missing...
DIED. John Passmore Widgery, 70, Britain's Lord Chief Justice from 1971 until his retirement last year; in London. An incisive debater with a formidable grasp of complicated issues, Widgery led a controversial inquiry that absolved the British army of gross misconduct in the 1972 shooting of 13 Roman Catholics during a demonstration in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He helped to make a number of landmark decisions on freedom of the press, including the reversal of obscenity convictions against three editors of the satirical magazine...