Word: grasp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...official German correspondent broadcast from the Don front: "When I first saw the endless Soviet columns, preceded by the heaviest tanks, an ice-cold hand seemed to grasp my heart. 'Almighty God, give us the strength to withstand this flood,' I prayed." The Nazis' official party journal, Völkischer Beobachter, informed its readers that "the last and highest decisions were at stake...
Counterpoint. No U.S. Congress had ever been on such a spot as the 77th. It was hard to imagine in all the history of parliaments, a time when ordinary men had to grapple with issues of such magnitude; they surpassed the grasp of many a legislator from the creek bottoms. But in its own way-which is not the way of direct approach-Congress tackled them...
...Allied invasion forces. Fortnight ago Washington diplomats were hinting that he was on his way out (after the "delivering" of Dakar and the scuttling of the French Fleet). But as "Chief of State," Darlan has control of 300,000 native troops-commanded by French officers and a firm grasp on civil administration...
...Major Eliot saw it, for all returns were not yet in. But the facts to date were good enough so that Major Eliot could advance as a plausible hypothesis the assertion that Roosevelt II was "one of the greatest war Presidents" of the U.S., a man with a "grasp of total and global strategy." Concluded Major Eliot: "We may likewise face the future under his leadership with a serene confidence in victory to come...
Wendell Willkie had apparently won his battle against the man who once seemed to have the chairmanship in his grasp: Illinois Committeeman Werner Schroeder, darling of the Chicago Tribune, of some of the Old Guard, numerous G.O.P. Willkie-haters and a group who merely liked Schroeder's acknowledged skill as a political organizer. Wendell Willkie did not control enough committee votes to beat Schroeder: all he had to fight with were his convictions and his strength as a symbol of G.O.P. progressivism. At week's end, that seemed to have been enough...