It's taken him a year, but I think he's finally come to grips with the death of his wife.
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Grips
//ɡɹɪps//
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cleave toclenchclevernessclinchclingcling toclingingclipclutchclutchescoercioncommandcompelcompetencecomprehensionconceptionconceptualizationconfrontconstraintcontend with
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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
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The shortcoming in infancy is, first off, not knowing the horrible, and secondly, fearing that which should not be feared. The same occurs to the natural man; he ignores where horror truly lies, where the grips of trembles never falter, but rather, shivers at what is not horrible.
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The World Food Program says hundreds of thousands of people in southern Madagascar are in the grips of a hunger emergency brought on by consecutive years of drought and ruined harvests.
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