Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influence, Clark will probably be forced into a more public role, especially when it comes time to explain Administration positions on Capitol Hill. Congressional Democrats-and a few of Clark's rivals within the Administration-relish the prospect, believing that such appearances will lay bare his shaky grasp of foreign policy. Says one detractor: "I think he'll eventually hang himself." But for the moment, friend and foe alike may find it worthwhile to drop by and see Uncle Bill...
...silent movement and glances to display inner turmoil about their son and about their predicament with the strike. One particularly touching moment occurs as the two sit at the kitchen table, silently counting the red beans that will become their dinner. The movements of their languid hands, which grasp each other passionately, show more than pathetic words or violent actions...
...corridors of the Tokyo University of Arts and in the crowded classrooms of the Toho Gakuen school, the technicians are at work, taking the measure of one of Japan's hottest imports. They pore over its structure as carefully as they would over a new automobile design; they grasp it as firmly as they do a microchip or a reflex-camera lens, anticipating the day when their country will be as formidable in this field as it is in so many others. It is not the Three Cs-cameras, computers and cars-that fire their imagination...
...could not dance to it. Let's Dance gets its licks in with a simplicity that may be deceptively easy to grasp. Its chief architect counsels caution. "Finding my style is real difficult," he says. "It's something real different for me. It's like. . . I don't want to say rebirth. But it's something like that...
...early scouting report was accurate. Sands was so good, in fact, that for almost the entire four years he spent at Harvard, he held a firm grasp on the Crimson's number one singles spot--a feat virtually unheard of at most major tennis powers...