Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could have been a good travel book. But the vivid jungle is matted and twined with the perilous Africa cliché, reminiscent of Hollywood's stock treatment: "Well," he muttered, staring up at the constellations, "don't go too deep into Africa. Don't try to grasp her. Don't try to penetrate her. Don't get sucked into the whirlpool. The deeper you go, the more poisonous she grows. Take my word for it. You'll end by going mad . . ." Storm and Echo will give many readers the same wrung-out feeling they...
...world . . . What I have in mind is Western man's apparent fear, frustration and helplessness in dealing with the great issues of our times. Anxiety about the advancing social transformations under the leadership of the Soviet Union is depriving the average Western citizen of a real grasp of the situation . . . [Communism represents] much of the social impetus of the living church from the Apostolic age down through the days of monastic orders to the Reformation and liberal humanism...
When Japan seized the country in 1905, the pretext was that Korea was a "Russian dagger pointed at Japan's heart." As long as it held North Korea the Russian hand would continue to grasp the dagger's handle. This week Rhee asked U.S. occupation forces to stay on "until the danger from the north lessens...
...Democratic Party, leaving Truman no choice but to fire him. The proCommunists did not realize at first what had happened, because Wallace in his speech also lightly rapped Russia; they booed him for that. But by all the evidence, Moscow, more prescient, sensed the prize within its grasp and ordered the U.S. Communists to seize him. Quickly the peace front corrected its faulty line and hailed its new-found hero...
First prizewinner was Giorgio Morandi, a mild modern who has become, at 58, Italy's favorite artist. Morandi's splendid reputation might be difficult for some exhibition visitors to grasp. It is built on his collection of used bottles, which he arranges in table-top still lifes and paints in a manner as surpassingly empty and dry as the bottles themselves...