Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace policy will be tremendous. Most Catholics and non-Catholics alike would agree that a peace that does not embody, at least roughly, the papal position on fundamental social issues will bring not social peace but a sword. For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes. Failure to grasp this fact means failure to understand the words that Dante read above the gates of Hell...
Bernie Baruch ran the famed War Industries Board in World War I, showed such a grasp of total war that the German military men later wrote of his handiwork in awe. In World War II, from his favorite bench in Lafayette Park across from the White House, he has been an informal adviser to Franklin Roosevelt and many members of the war cabinet. But not until this week-except for his brief tour of duty investigating the 1942 rubber scandal-did Bernie Baruch lose his unofficial status. He will still serve without pay or title...
Beyond the Outpost. As has been true on every other Pacific front, the Japs were cool fighters. But with Attu firmly in the U.S. grasp, Kiska gravely threatened and the Jap naval base at Paramoshiri only 750 miles beyond the westernmost U.S. outpost, signs of nervousness began to appear in Tokyo. Blustered the Jap, in an official broadcast: "If in the future Russia ever puts her Siberian bases at the disposal of the U.S., the Japanese Army will resort to a blitzkrieg that will deal upon her the heaviest blows Russia has ever known...
Just after dawn a 327-ft. Coast Guard cutter hove into sight - "the most beautiful ship in the world." The cutter's crew threw ropes to men on the rafts. Some were too weak to grasp the lines. Coast Guardsmen dived into the icy water, tied ropes around them. Repeatedly the big cutter had to break off rescue operations, dash away to drop depth charges. Each time she came back. Before she sailed on the cutter had saved...
Obviously, no uninterested servicemen would apply, and those that grasp the opportunity would have a memorable morning browsing around in Harvard's teachings. And while the browser is benefitting himself there are many classes, especially in History, Government, and Philosophy, where the greater breadth of the auditor's experience might add substantially to what the students themselves get out of the class...