Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is not an easy fact to grasp. The world has taken Picasso's presence for granted for so long, in the 50 or more years since he became, or was made into, a culture hero, that it seemed natural to assume that he would not die. So might Tibetans take the daily sight of Anapurna as routine. The gap left by Picasso is not immediately measurable. Since the best of his long life's work survives, very little is physically lost; not even the paintings of his last years, most of which-to judge from what...
...revolved primarily around the South Dakota reservations and the Black Hills. Of all the Indian treaties, AIM points to the 1868 Laramie treaty, which supposedly guarantees Indian control over the Black Hills. But the United States, through a series of shady maneuvers, took this scenic land from the Indian grasp...
...cavalry caught up with him at Spotted Tail's agency, and arrested him. Under the grasp of his former comrade, Little Big Man (now an Indian policeman), Crazy Horse was led to the agency jail. When he refused to enter, a guard stabbed the Oglala chief with his bayonet, while Little Big Man held him captive. Crazy Horse was buried, ironically enough, at Wounded Knee...
...struggle between reservation Indians and non-reservation Indians, between Indians co-opted by the government and those who remain outside the government's grasp, erupted again at Wounded Knee. AIM asked for more than adherence to the 1868 Laramie treaty-it asked for the young Oglala to remember that Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull died at the hands of Indian police working for the U.S. government...
...twin of its predecessor, Pioneer 10, which will pass close enough to Jupiter in December to send back pictures and data about the atmosphere, strong magnetic field and puzzling red spot of the giant planet. Because the new craft, like Pioneer 10, may break the sun's gravitational grasp after passing Jupiter and soar out of the solar system, it too has been equipped with a message to any alien civilization that might someday intercept it. Like its twin, Pioneer will carry a plaque showing two humans (a nude male and female) and giving other information-in symbols that...