Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many nights when I sit writing in my library, nobody awake in the whole house but me and my Winky [the cat], I think I hear intruders-and I grasp my revolver, ready to shoot. I feel these things, and I will fight. I am the last of the Barons . . . the last of the Barons...
Doctors still do not know whether Hodgkin's disease is a tumor caused by infection or a true cancer resulting from changes in the reproductive mechanism of cells in the lymphatic system. And because of their inability to decide between these two theories, they grasp at every straw that may offer a clue to the cause of the disease. Such a clue has been reported by the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston: two medical students who lived in the same room, but at different times, developed Hodgkin's disease within a few months, or possibly weeks. Could that...
...Shaky Grasp. U.S. Treasury officials are convinced that Giscard, 39, an erudite and ambitious money expert who rose through the bureaucracy to become France's youngest finance minister in this century, has little to say nowadays about French financial policy. As they see it, that policy is increasingly framed by De Gaulle, who views economics as a handy weapon but has a grasp of its intricacies that is roughly equal to Giscard's knowledge of military strategy. De Gaulle has come increasingly under the influence of Jacques Rueff, a gold standard devotee and a close economic adviser. This...
...spring and summer too-was Dior's Marc Bohan. Overshadowed a few seasons ago by the much-heralded Yves St. Laurent, Bohan was clearly back In, with tenure. In a bouleversant collection hailed as the most beautiful in years, Bohan took fashion out of the bony grasp of the mannequins and gave it back to the women whose extra inch of hip or bosom, however fetching to the male eye, have made them high fashion's untouchables. Exclaimed Best-Dressed Jacqueline de Ribes: "I am so happy...
...this collection of essays and letters, Merton punctures the white liberal's complacent participation in the civil rights movement as a kind of self-indulgence that is of "no interest to the Negro." In his view, what the Southern segregationist realizes, and the Northern liberal fails to grasp, is that with full and meaningful integration of the Negro, "society is going to be radically changed." However, says Merton, before the Negro revolution ever nears fulfillment, the liberal will respond by "goosestepping down Massachusetts Avenue." If this vision seems extravagant, the author argues persuasively that the struggle is a preordained...