Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World mastery had been in Dr. Hahn's grasp, but it had slipped away. The measure of his failure was last week's Allied decision to let him return to Germany...
First Prince Dimitri tried, but he fell asleep. Prince Vasily fell asleep too. But Prince Ivan snatched one feather from the Firebird's tail as she tore herself from his grasp. "This feather was so marvelously bright that when it was placed in a dark room it made the whole room shine as if it were lit up by many candles. King Vyslav put the feather in his study as a keepsake, to be treasured forever." But the King still wanted the Firebird taken alive. So prince Ivan rode in search...
...marine in World War I, Mielziner served for three years in World War II doing camouflage for the Army Air Forces. It proved an interesting reversal of roles. "On the stage my job was to make people grasp a situation as quickly as possible. In camouflage, my job was to keep them from grasping...
...into national nonentity, the atom bomb had been dropped. The bomb that obliterated Hiroshima had blown apart man's conscience and his sense of civilized security. For the first time in history man, who still could not inform with life one submicroscopic particle of matter, found within his grasp the power to destroy creation...
...Westward he reports the road to victory from Saipan to Okinawa. This book is a memorable day-to-day account of the high points-Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Ryukyus-in the bitter 3,500-mile battle that led from Tarawa to Tokyo. It is reported with a tacit grasp of the overall strategy, an identification, remarkable in a correspondent, between Sherrod and the officers and men (chiefly of the U.S. Marine Corps) with whom he shared many of the hazards of war, an exhilarating sense of the grandeur (as well as the misery) of battle. There are striking impressions...