Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sane and balanced arguments, his parliamentary and diplomatic steadiness. In the debates on Poland and Greece he was completely at ease before the House. As he spoke, he turned toward all parts of the Chamber, gestured, seldom referred to notes, discussed broad international problems with such obvious grasp that even opponents were convinced that he had left his hat at home...
...Muse cannot help being an intellectual," said the Tsar generously, "but I do not think that we should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
...Sydney's Daily Telegraph, to go to work for Hong Kong's China Mail. He was Shanghai correspondent for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald when Dr. Sun heard about him. Donald, profoundly moved by the revolution and by the inability of Shanghai papers to grasp its meaning, jumped...
Victory was snatched from the grasp of Stahl's hapless quintet Wednesday evening when a Cushing General Hospital five, putting on a spurt in the last quarter, nullified the Crimson athletes' six point third-quarter advantage...
...plastic, modern artificial limbs are light and adaptable: knee joints, for example, are adjustable for walking, sitting, even dancing. Artificial arms have a great variety of hand attachments. For public wear, there is usually a wooden hand, covered by a glove; for utility, a double hook arrangement to grasp small objects, and special fittings for eating, hammering, driving screws, etc. Before discharge, every man must be able to feed and dress himself...