Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another great victory this week was within the Red Army's grasp: reoccupation of Estonia. Already Russian vanguards were within gun range of the border. Before them now lay only the fortified northern gateway into the tiny Baltic States...
...burst more than one seam. It was marching into a fragment of Poland, toward Rumania, toward the Baltic States. The border of Germany proper, at its nearest, still lay 340 miles across the buffer lands. But of pre-1939 Russia the Wehrmacht now held a slipping grasp on approximately 200,000 square miles; once it was master of 527,000 square miles of Russia...
...Sunday-school cake sale. Sample reportage: "Staff Sergeant Oscar Duebec pulled the pin from a grenade he was about to hurl with his right hand when he was wounded in the left hand. Perplexed, he decided to walk to the aid station, keeping the grenade immobilized by continuing to grasp the lever in his right palm. Anxious medics hurriedly stitched the wound, whereupon Duebec walked back . . . relieved everyone by chucking the grenade into enemy positions...
...Pisanello ... was perhaps the first great draftsman of Europe. . . . [He] tries to grasp man as a product of nature. . . . His new conception of nature ... is . . . immediately expressed in his drawings of animals, plants, trees, and landscapes. He looks with new eyes on the broad realm of creation and discovers in the pulpy flower or plant something zoömorphic, and in the animal something plantlike. He sees trees as tender, trembling creatures hovering in the soft air; landscape is for him no longer a mere background to man but a space filled with light...
...military men will send Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, down to the Mediterranean to lead all Allied air operations in that theater, and bring Major General James H. Doolittle up as chief of the Eighth. Eaker, a crack officer with an unparalleled grasp of the problems of daylight precision bombing, had fought long and successfully for that American theory of air attack. Few of his friends could doubt that he must be deeply disappointed at departing now, just when he had built his air force to the point of wrecking key German industries...