Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wrong. An as-yet unidentified hand knocked the ball from Trout's grasp, and in one fluid motion, Cornell's Lucas scooped it up and banged it in off the glass before time ran out. Final score: Cornell 57, Harvard...
Tymienieckay described Solidarity as a "movement for democracy in the most rudimentary sense." Emphasizing the gravity of the Polish situation, she added, "Ten million people were fighting strongly for Solidarity--that's an entire nation. It is such a massive situation that no political view can grasp...
...difficult for Westerners to grasp the extent to which Gaddafi is the sole spirit and voice of a revolution that in twelve years has transformed this North African desert wasteland. In 1969, armed with Islamic zeal and a near fanatical belief that he was the heir to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's pan-Arabic nationalism, Gaddafi and eleven other young officers deposed the conservative King Idris in a bloodless coup. Gaddafi has since established iron political control of his countrymen, largely by spreading Libya's abundant oil wealth among them. Says Fouad Zlitni, a true believer...
...fate of Bruno's parents and the means by which he escaped his own destiny on the cattle train. Also, the understandable passivity that Bruno displayed as a young boy has remained; a presumably heroic survivor, he now dawdles aimlessly in bars and coffee shops, trying to grasp a past that his earlier narrative has already captured and preserved...
Gradually they "develop" on the eye, and one begins to grasp their internal relationships: how articulate the subtle sequence of tones may be, in a form that once looked flat and light brown; how many colors may be contained, as dusty hints and afterimages of themselves, in what seemed to be a sequence of gray patches. If the straight side of a bottle seems to waver, it only does so to remind us how mutable and hard to fix the act of seeing really is. And if the shapes look simple, their simplicity is extremely deceptive; one recognizes...