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Word: clasping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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Erhart has a more intoxicating idea, like eloping with a pert divorcee (Patricia Cray Lloyd). The desolate John Gabriel wanders out into the snow to die, and the sisters clasp hands of reconciliation over his body. Marshall, Murphy and Worth do the best that able professionals can with their roles but this production rarely gives them much scope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bleak House | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...swamped in a wave of revolution. Prior to last week's incident. Marcos--who had allowed Aquino out of the country for a triple bypass heart operation, primarily because he could not afford to let Aquino die in prison and become a martyr--responded cautiously, trying to keep his clasp on power while waiting out the results of the presidential election. The president put out feelers, realizing a compromise with Aquino provided at least a chance to salvage something from among the ruins...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Storm Warning | 10/31/1980 | See Source »

...argued consistenly and effectively about the dangers of private institutions' increasing dependence on the federal government. As Stanford president Richard Lyman explains, Bok has "raised problems we didn't have in the last 15 years," warning--as he did in a recent article--that government "can easily clasp education in a deadly embrace that stifles its education and vigor...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Graying of Derek Bok | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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