Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should I worry about Poland, the starving Greeks and Italians? Why should I have an uncle in occupied Germany, and two young brothers who will probably stay behind to guard Japan? The U.S. has become too great, too powerful for an average G.I. like myself to grasp what it's all about...
...Reich, that one for his failure to be openly against the Nazis. Not one man elected had ever belonged to the party. It was easy to see that many present did not dare speak their minds-it had been too long since they last could. Others were unable to grasp this new thing, free speech. But it was as fine a start and as encouraging a seed of a decent new Reich as I could have wished...
...Beginning. Another kind of Polish issue began to brew last week. One of the worst of the London Poles' many mistakes was their claim to Teschen, which Poland took from Czechoslovakia in 1938, when the Czechs were in Hitler's grasp. The Lublin Poles originally took the opposite line, expressed a willingness to see Teschen go back to Czechoslovakia. But last week the Polish Communist press started an anti-Czech campaign for Teschen...
...final course of the core curriculum is in the Liberal Tradition and is compulsory for Seniors. Its aim is to give the graduating class an integration of their studies in the core curriculum and a grasp of the aims and methods of liberal education
...astute move cut two ways. The appointment of U.S.-educated T. V. Soong, who more than any other Chinese has in the past showed a grasp of Western methods, men and purposes, could scarcely fail to please the U.S. and simplify the task of Chiang's U.S. advisers, Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley and Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Chief of the joint U.S.-Chinese General Staff...