Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before him and try to ride him down. More harrowing is Antonio's grasp of his family's greed. Prowling around him like jackals sniffing carrion, they probe mercilessly for his Swiss bank account number...
...merger agreement would have to address all these inequalities, and administrators who acknowledge the difficulties claim that a solution is nevertheless within their grasp. At this time however, it seems clear that merger talks, once scheduled to end by September 1970, are destined to drag on for months to come...
Over two years, Premack and his assistants trained Sarah in the use of verbs, sentence structure, questions and conceptions, the last being the cognitive ability to grasp not only the root meaning of the word-symbols but their application in totally unfamiliar contexts. Having taught her to associate the color red with apple and the color green with grape, says Premack, "we then tested her comprehension of the conception 'color of.' " He was not surprised when Sarah demonstrated her ability to assign the characteristic "color of" to totally unfamiliar objects: that the redness of an apple, for instance...
Thomas is already reaching magisterially for the big sound and carrying both audiences and orchestras with him. But reach does not always equal grasp-in conducting, particularly. With all his gifts, Thomas has a long road ahead. It will take years, as well as accession to the control of a symphony orchestra, for him to set his mark-as a great conductor must-upon a repertory of music and a group of musicians. No one is more willing to learn, however. It is probably lucky for him, and for the Boston Symphony, that he puts himself to sleep at night...
...tackling," Lombardi liked to say. "You block and tackle better than the team you're playing, you win." In the Lombardi canon, malingering was a capital crime and injuries did not exist. "Lombardi time" ran ten minutes ahead of the rest of the world; whoever did not readily grasp this temporal anomaly learned at the cost of $10 per minute. Above all, Lombardi preached pride and mutual esteem, though he never permitted intimacy. Probably the most famous quote from Lombardi's Green Bay epoch came from Tackle Henry Jordan, who said: "He treats us all the same-like...