Word: graspings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Halfback Slattery's second T.D. and two runs for paydirt by backfield mate John Koelbl put the game out of Cornell's futile grasp in the second half. Don Fannelli scored a pair of touchdowns for the losers, now 0-5 in loop competition...
...quarter, after snaring first half scoring passes, to set the stage for some final period fireworks. Wixted, the second leading rusher in Penn history, scored his third TD on a one-yard plunge. A 35-yard field goal by Tim Nanzetti put the game out of the Tigers futile grasp...
...landslide victory by the mayor in a city torn by racial strife would considerably improve his chances of realizing his national political aspirations. Kevin White, a near vice-presidential nominee in 1972, recognizes the value of such a victory; but a determined Joe Timilty may keep it beyond his grasp...
...White-faced, Ford flinched from the gun. At the same instant, Secret Service Agent Larry Buen-dorf, 37, lunged forward. A husky athlete, Buendorf easily wrested the gun from her grasp and threw her to the ground. With the help of agents and a policeman, he quickly handcuffed...
...there is a deeper level of unfamiliarity. Since the early 15th century, European art has been so much concerned with finite space, with place and solidity rendered through perspective and tone, that we find it hard to grasp the forms of Islamic art−its "arabesques," those complicated embellishments that twine like morning-glories across every surface, an undulant line branching into unimaginably complicated mazes, knots, overlays, repeats and meander patterns. One is faced, not by another decorative style, but by a wholly different notion of space and substance...