Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baum was practically screwed into the mat as Jack Maxham tried to get Baum to break his grasp on Maxham's leg. It was all that kept Maxham from absolute control and 2 points to break...
Basis for Settlement. The tragedy is that only a few days before, a solution to the long Rhodesian crisis had seemed almost within grasp. Meeting on board the British cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith had taken only two days to hammer out a "working document" that, Wilson announced, "should serve as the basis for a settlement...
...lies wreathed in a "black mist" of Cabinet-level scandal (TIME, Nov. 4) went on television and told a nationwide audience: "It is regrettable that my administration and party have invited public distrust for lack of moral standards. The main thing is that I, as the responsible person, fully grasp the implications." On the theory that he could best correct the situation, Sato thereupon announced his candidacy for a second term as party president. No one doubted that he would...
...same token, it is regrettable that commentators felt it necessary to label every conservative candidate who won a "right-winger," a "segregationist" or a profiteer from "white backlash." Newsmen cannot grasp the fact that we are not all liberals with Socialistic tendencies like themselves, but just plain conservatives who still believe in people doing for themselves...
...inside one. And that, say the Hills, is just what happened to them. A few minutes after the sighting, Barney Hill turned the car down a side road, impelled by some extrasensory command. There, half a dozen humanoid creatures with wall eyes, metallic skin, rudimentary mouths and a grasp of English led them aboard a spacecraft and inspected the captives separately. Barney's removable dentures mystified his examiners; so did the dissimilarity between his skin and his wife's-he is a Negro; she.is white. A 6-in. needle was inserted into Betty's navel...