Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repeal of the Arms Embargo last fall as an issue suitable for study and began to add inches. To no one's great surprise, most of the dailies were found all too innocent of objectivity, the cardinal virtue in journalism. John Q. Public, who rarely reads editorials, could nevertheless grasp editorial policy through the news columns. Word coloring of stories was discovered; news favorable to policy found prominent display on the front page, while "in acceptable" news was found buried on the inside pages; and letters to the editor approved the paper's position with suspicious frequency. Both Hearst papers...
...straw in the anti-Axis wind was an editorial in a quickly-suppressed edition of the Japanese magazine News Week, usually close to the Foreign Office: "German momentum has been definitely arrested. ... By the end of the third year the finish of the horrible carnage should be within the grasp of the Allies...
...quick grasp of the reasons why General Andrews' Caribbean task is so big and so important, see the map on page 33. The main reasons...
Cleaning up the Ukraine is no afternoon tea party. It comprises an area bigger than Italy, and about one-sixth of Russia's peoples live there. But Adolf Hitler must have it, must grasp its steelworks, its great Dnieper dam, its rich black dirt which pushes up abundance and covers coal and iron...
...resort-town of Baguio, where it played symphonies for vacationing Manilans while puzzled Igorots in G strings looked on from the sidelines. Zipper rehearses his men for 90 hours before each concert, sometimes has to teach them how to play their parts. But he claims that his musicians can grasp a trick of technique quicker than many a more thoroughly trained Occidental. Says he: "My first clarinetist could play with any orchestra in the world...