Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis last month, with the Professional Golfers' Association championship in his grasp, Ben Hogan found the grind just about too hard to take. "I want to die an old man, not a young one," he told reporters. Every golfer in the big time-a businesslike gang that lives a life of tense desperation from hole to hole and tourney to tourney-knew just how he felt. The game had changed from the day of the great Walter Hagen, when a pro played in about 15 tournaments a year. Now it is a year-round business, in which only half...
...admirers say that he understands government better than any man in Washington; that he is not ashamed to admit mistakes; that he has the kind of filing-case mind and grasp of facts needed for the complex job of being President; that he is intellectually honest; that the people will always know exactly where he stands; that he would give the nation a businesslike, energetic and straightforward government...
...That everything in the Bible happened at more or less the same time and place. "The students seemed unable to grasp the fact that some events in the Bible took place years before others, that some ideas were very ancient, that the events occurred in the faraway Near East, and that the writing is flavored by this locale...
...tried, then look for the familiar pattern. Whether it would work in Finland as well as in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere is a question. Three Communist-organized demonstrations at factories flopped last week. At a railway repair shop an impassioned speaker said: "Two hands are being offered you. Will you grasp the hand of capitalism or the hand of Stalin?" Dutiful stooges started yelling: "Stalin," but were drowned out by hearty shouts of "Neither...
...however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics by this time next year. Whether they ought to or not, they won't. Until they do, the journalist who wants to communicate anything about physics must continue to explain certain rudiments in terms that readers will understand. A journalist who gives his reader simple but necessary...