Word: graspingly
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...guns of U.S. Navy vessels made escape impossible, the Reds could either fight and die, or surrender. A record number chose the lesser part of valor, producing the highest prisoner count of any operation in the war. As Operation Irving progressed, some 320 surrendering Viet Cong stumbled into the grasp of the Aircav alone...
When he is through speaking, the crowds engulf him, clutching at his arms, reaching over his shoulders to grasp his hand, clapping him on the back. "You're wonderful!" women cry. Men shout, "Good luck!" He is besieged for autographs. Reagan is not a compulsive crowd plunger, like Nelson Rockefeller, or an irrepressible hand grabber, like Lyndon Johnson. By nature he is almost reticent. At a factory gate, he will often wait with hands limp at his sides, nodding a .bit awkwardly at passers-by until someone recognizes him. Then, on center stage, Reagan's face lights...
...this time when I will be able to resume my own candidacy. Whenever you resume your campaign, I will understand completely." It was a savage irony, for the death of Valerie Percy will probably seal a victory for Chuck Percy in November that had already seemed almost within his grasp...
Robert Ettinger, a physics teacher at Michigan's Highland Park Junior College, is the main proponent of this modern grasp at immortality. Since 1947, he has been interested in cryogenics, the science of freezing substances at extreme temperatures. For precedents, he points out that technicians have already succeeded in reanimating lower forms of animal life. In his book The Prospects of Immortality, Ettinger proposes that humans take advantage of this example by having their bodies frozen instead of buried or cremated...
...necessary to master an art to become successful at it. There are celebrated singers who cannot hold a note and artists who cannot grasp the essentials of form and color. Then there is Allen Drury, who happens to be a bestselling novelist without much talent for writing. But Drury has a special gift-a reportorial eye and ear for detail and atmosphere, an expertise about political power, and a seasoned newsman's disdain for cant...