Word: grasping
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Even in the current situation, it is far from impossible to snatch a recruit from Penn and Princeton’s grasp. The other six Ivy institutions can offer benefits—such as immediate playing time—that the Quakers and Tigers sometimes cannot...
...next song that comes on the radio will be our song” line in the last episode before the show took that strange month-long hiatus, I was about ready to give up. I thought that it had officially run out of juice, attempting to grasp hold of a teenage reality with which it had never been really acquainted. Ultimately, however, those crazies over at “The OC” are making strides to return to the tasteful balance between the real and the absurd. But if they play “Forever Young” again...
...managing its entire kitchen staff—20 people, 18 of whom had a limited grasp of English...
...speaks about the whole year with cool perspective now, but it was nearly impossible to do so at the time. Grumet-Morris was racking up stellar statistics, but "during sophomore year, I had a really tight grasp on my identity," Daigneau says. "I was a hockey player, and I kind of forgot about everything else...
Murakami relaxes through translation and long-distance running. He feels that it renews his creative faculties—a notion that might be hard for anyone who has ever attempted to translate a text or to run a marathon to grasp...