Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Following Nixon's cue. Chafee also organized a small Democrats for Chafee Committee that he hoped would make at least some inroads into the Democratic strength. His regular organization pledged itself to get out every possible Republican vote and Chafee hoped that with a strong grasp on Nixon's coattails he would be pulled to victory...
...civil anarchy." He was not far from wrong. The police department, which has, to say the least, a checkered history, has not done all it might to clean up Gary's Augean stables. At one point, a police detective literally whisked away a prime suspect from the grasp of federal agents and tore through the town with him at 85 m.p.h. Earlier this year, another officer was indicted for perjury; instead of suspending him, the town's civil service commission promoted him spectacularly from sergeant to captain...
Although Studds was leading weeks by 33,600 to 26,466 with only about 40 per cent of the vote counted, the Democrat seemed to have victory safely in his grasp by running ahead of his expected totals in New Bedford, Plymouth and Norwell
...reason that Congressmen may seem lacking in their grasp of the larger affairs of state is that they spend so much of their two-year terms trying to get reelected. It can be a draining, humbling and sometimes compromising rite. The process does, however, keep Congressmen close to the people, and it produces a biennial crop of interesting political personalities. Herewith the pick of the 435 races now being contested...
...happen. They are impossible. They conflict with the description of reality we've been fed since we were little babies. So Don Juan just seems a crazy old Indian. But in his world, his way of knowledge is superb and absolutely congruous. My task was to grasp the units of meaning proper to sorcery, and learn Don Juan's way of describing the world...