Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When there were no hands left to shake along the rope line, Clinton glad-handed the police and anyone else he could find, almost reeling, staggering backward, to find more people to grasp, like a little boy scraping the last of the ice cream out of a bowl, his spoon clattering on the china. The President even beamed at me and looked as if he wanted to embrace me, until he saw the notebook in my hand--whereupon his eyes jumped away...
...crumbled under the weight of science," writer Robert Wright displays a puzzling selectivity in then declaring that "the Christian doctrine of original sin makes more sense as evolutionary psychologists learn more about why people do bad things." If Genesis has even a smidgen of relevance in helping us grasp the concept of original sin, why are the scientifically enlightened so adamant that Genesis' assertions regarding origins in general are unreliable? TIM CALLAWAY Calgary, Canada...
...candidate is "a highly impressionable person without a firm grasp of public affairs." That was Walter Lippmann in 1932 talking about Franklin D. Roosevelt...
DEMOCRATS Can't count on Arkansas. A seat they need to control the Senate may fall out of their grasp...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "My friends in the North American labor movement so far have failed to grasp the enormous opportunity and potential in NAFTA for spreading the vision and reality of industrial democracy throughout this hemisphere...