Word: graspingly
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...clear grasp of the crispness requisite for a Mozart overture was in evidence as the orchestra performed the overture to La Clemenza di Tito with note-perfect accuracy while preserving considerable nuance in phrasing. The sutleties never detracted from the urgency and vitality of the piece--Which, by the way, is a curious amalgam of Gluckian melodrama and a Rossinian Flippancy, a flippancy that the Italian himself rarely could equal...
...rivers, creeks and cow ponds, worshiped in barns and shacks, staged hell-raising, Bible-banging revivals in tents and private homes. Clapboard churches, throughout the South and Southwest, became the architectural landmark of the Baptist advance for nearly a century. Any man who heard the call was encouraged to grasp a Bible and summon a crowd...
FOREIGN POLICY. Bobby believes that the final TV foreign policy debate will be a trap for Nixon-and that G.O.P. Campaign Manager Len Hall has underestimated Jack Kennedy's grasp of foreign policy. "Jack was writing books on it before Nixon ever knew anything about it," he scoffs. "Jack had been to 30 foreign countries before Nixon had been to five...
...after 9:26 of the second period, Martin dribbled all by himself down the left sidelines, and got off a low, spinning shot toward the Big Red nets. Scotty Holmes, the Cornell goalie, confidently went down on one knee to stop the ball, but it spun out of his grasp and away from his desperate effort to retrieve...
...Lodge's U.N. performance. In polls showing presidential preferences among Republican voters during 1959 and the early months of 1960, Lodge consistently ran third, after Nixon and Rockefeller, though he had done nothing at all to stir up political interest in himself. One G.O.P. politician who did grasp the meaning of those polls was Richard Nixon who long before the conventions decided to make his stand on foreign policy. That made Lodge an obvious vice-presidential prospect, and Lodge was plainly receptive...