Word: graspings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naming to surreal heights and depths. The President's wish to stick to Jimmy as his official name perhaps ingratiated him more with the public than any other step he has taken-and may, in the end, have hinted more than he intended at his fuzzy grasp of presidential power...
George Patey is a public relations man whose reach exceeds his grasp, but within his grasp, he has the entire wall against which Al Capone's gunmen shot down seven rival gangsters on St. Valentine's Day of 1929. Patey was in his native Vancouver one morning in 1967 when he heard on the radio, that the famous wall on Chicago's North Clark Street was about to be demolished. He immediately got on the telephone and, for a price he keeps to himself, bought it. Says he: "They tore down the wall and shipped...
Arthur J. Dyck, Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics at the Divinity School, said Paul had a "very perceptive and very humane grasp of the issues" of population control, an issue that created tremendous controversy during his 15-year reign...
...unity with other branches of the Christian faith; and that he steadfastly refused to give in to the efforts of rightists such as Archbishop Lefebvre to erode the reforms he began. Perhaps historians will manage to forget all this, and still judge Paul a conservative, a traditionalist unwilling to grasp the changing currents in the world of faith. More likely, however, they will see him as a cautious man, a man dedicated to change but unwilling, or unable, to let the great reforms he fostered grow out of control, to tear apart an already deeply divided Church...
Plundering of ancient objects has flourished since the days of the conquistadors, who shipped to Spain almost all the gold artifacts that came within their grasp, often melting them down beforehand. But lately the thieves have become more sophisticated and nearly uncontrollable...