Word: graspings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite amazed. In Britain, such a scene is virtually inconceivable. When you are raised in a system where health care is something to be taken entirely for granted it is hard to grasp that anyone, like this old man, need ever worry about having to pay for such services. Indeed a well-known British correspondent, trying to bring home this contrast, recently wrote an article that began: "If I could be rich, beautiful, young, but above all healthy, there is nowhere that I would rather live than New York...." This expresses a sentiment shared by many Europeans...
...onsides kick. Ken Thomas cuts across from the left and kicks the expected ten-yarder that conjectures its way off a Yale player and into the recovering grasp of Bill Kelly at the Yale 49. (Note--Elapsed time: 0 seconds...
There wasn't all that much at stake, really -- oh, a few individual records maybe, but not the Ivy title, which had slipped from Harvard's grasp weeks ago. But in a game that will be remembered for years to come, the Harvard and Yale football teams put on an offensive fireworks display that kept the sellout crowd on the edge of their seats for 60 minutes...
...Treasury aide initially told Carter that the increase would be the largest since 1921. Demonstrating his awesome?and to some advisers infuriating ?grasp of detail, the President quickly corrected him: there had been a one-point leap in 1933, and the 1921 boost the aide had been thinking of was actually a point and a quarter...
...agreements in principle, even though the accords promise them an end to the eleven years of Israeli military rule and also guarantee them domestic autonomy. The improvement in the Palestinians' status falls far short of their goal of independence, but some moderate Palestinians believe it would be advantageous to grasp even the tenuous levers of self-government that Israel offers. Says Hatim Abu-Ghazaleh, 42, a Gaza physician: "Our basic national duty is to engage the Israelis in a political dialogue." Adds Abdel Attrif, 61, former mayor of the West Bank village of Ein Yabrud: "Camp David was not that...