Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...total responsive environment," the manufacturer calls it. That is the way one company describes its new three-level baby crib equipped with toys to grasp and pull, sand timers to watch, wheels to spin, voice-activated mobiles and sound tapes, plus a tank awash with live fish. According to the developers and to some child psychologists who have endorsed the environmental crib, almost every baby needs such a scientifically engineered corral for sleep and play. Parents who prefer the traditional, simple "containment crib," it has been argued, may end up with a child who is not too bright...
...German belligerence necessitated top priority for the German question. Ulam sees this preoccupation with Germany as a continuous thread running through postwar Soviet foreign policy. In March, 1947, Molotov suggested a reunified Germany, but the plan was overlooked by the U.S. The 1948 Berlin blockade was not a grasp for a city of 2 million people. Ulam suggests, but an attempt to reopen the question of a united Germany. The Rapacki Plan, which Russia forwarded and America rejected in 1957, proposed a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe. And according to Ulam's novel interpretation of the 1962 Cuban missile...
Wesleyan still remains undefeated since its loss to the Crimson two weeks ago. The cardinals beat Amherst, 4-1, last weekend to maintain a tight grasp on second place...
...have no easy time with the Quaker defense, which has been playing well all season, particularly in the Dartmouth game three weeks ago. In that game, the Quakers were tied, 3-3, with the Indians at halftime, only to have the Green's Bill Pollock scramble out of the grasp of defenders for two fourth-quarter bombs and a 19-3 victory...
...passages of Neil Simon's latest work. (Without being lit crit about it all. I even find something in these plays, call it perhaps an aura of faded expectation, that reminds me of the heroes and heroincs one finds in the novels of Edith Wharton and Henry James.) To grasp for a descriptive phrase. Furth seems to be in the process of fashioning a comedy of lost possibilities. Twigs--as it plays the lives of its three sisters off against one another--could almost take for a second epigraph the words sung by Benjamin Stone, the success-failure of Follies...