Word: graspingly
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...gaucheries are being corrected. Press criticism is ebbing. Recently, he loaned his excellent collection of French Impressionist paintings to the Tate Gallery for an exhibition. During Prime Minister Harold Wilson's visit to Washington last week, Annenberg stayed very much in the background, in proper ambassadorial style. His grasp of foreign policy issues still seems shaky, but his staffers acknowledge his executive abilities. "He runs the embassy like a chairman of the board," says one official. "He's one of the best organizational ambassadors I've ever served under." Insists Lady Keith, the U.S.-born wife...
...together during Orientation Week for pronouncements on how "special" we are glad-handed by proud relatives and deified by guidance counselors. we can use as many reminders of our biological spiritual identity as we can get. If we remember that DeRopp, like the rest of us, has a firmer grasp of the questions than of the answers, reading his book can have some value...
...whole or ecosystem. The word ecology (derived from the Greek root oikos, meaning "house") is often used in ways that suggest an attitude rather than a discipline. Anthropologists and psychiatrists have adapted it to their work. Poet Allen Ginsberg declaims it like a revolutionary slogan. But few yet grasp its subtle meanings?as Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska proved last summer. Arguing for fast development of his state's oil-rich North Slope, Stevens referred to his dictionary. "Ecology," he declared, "deals with the relationship between living organisms." Then he added triumphantly: "But there are no living organisms...
Where roots reach up to grasp it tight, like hands...
...industrialized or mass-produced housing, and the design, economic, financial and implementation aspects of housing. We feel the scope of your experience and knowledge in the field of housing is too narrow for our needs. We have reason to believe that there are people available with a superior grasp of the total housing problem. As a small school we cannot afford to have many specialists in a single field, but must seek the most highly qualified and broadly knowledgeable people...