Word: graspings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that with National under its wing, it will be able to compete more effectively against foreign flag carriers. Most of them are government owned or heavily subsidized; in their own countries they have the access to domestic routes that Pan Am has long sought but never been able to grasp...
...importance of both their reality and practicality. Just by thinking on such a grand scale, humanity not only enlarges its universe but expands and ennobles itself. Perhaps the ideal metaphor is not Piglet's Heffalump but Browning's famous declamation: "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,/ Or what's a heaven for." To the growing fraternity of black-hole theorists, that cosmic vision is the ultimate lodestar...
...smile is winning, the grasp firm. Is that a future politician swaddled in those blankets? Well, Baby Jennie's Grandpa Nixon lived in the White House and so did her Great-Grandpa Eisenhower. But Jennie's parents, Julie and David Eisenhower aren't sending her on the hustings yet. As for Nixon's view of his granddaughter's future, he says: "There's only one area I'll try to influence her in. She'll be an Angels...
There are lots of good reasons for Kennedy's reluctance. He has a powerful Senate career in his grasp. And a challenge to Carter would focus attention on two extremely troublesome areas of his personal life: his wife Joan's health and, of course, Chappaquiddick...
Nowhere is the fact that man's (or woman's) reach too often exceeds his/ her grasp so dangerous as in weekend sports. A full-blown heart attack can happen right there in the middle of the doubles court, as the determined jock refuses to admit fatigue or acknowledge warning chest pains and keeps playing...