Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be heartbreaking, but the myth is as yet undisturbed. Their continuous guerrilla warfare, consisting of such minor pranks as neckties draped around John Harvard and abortive attempts to weld the gates, has gone unnoticed. Last year, however, Rochester's abduction did attract some attention, but Harvard failed to grasp the idea that it was only part of a rivalry of long standing...
...Nelson flashed his famous signal: "England expects every man to do his duty." Collingwood struck the enemy's rear, Nelson the centre. The British lost no ships, in the end captured or destroyed 22 of the Frenchmen. Nelson himself was mortally wounded just as victory was in his grasp. In the arms of his flag-captain, Thomas Hardy, Nelson said, "Thank God I have done my duty," and died...
...becomes necessary to our purpose, we will go to war. Once the nation has committed itself to victory or death it cannot turn back. America might not win. But if she did, after a necessarily long and exhausting war, the chances are that she would "in one embrace grasp death and victory" (in the quaint phraseology of the Widener murals), except that in this case death would take the form of permanent fascism...
...pleased U. S. audiences: the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, containing I Want to Be Happy and Tea for Two. The residue is just a flimsy yarn about a coy and curvesome Miss Fix-it (Miss Neagle) who spends her time extricating an errant uncle (Roland Young) from the grasp of troublesome trollops...
...been economic theorizing. Its culmination is the National Depository, whose purpose is to "bring permanent prosperity to America." Its details he guards with crusty jealousy. After all, says O'Hearn, it took him eight years to figure out the scheme, so he doesn't expect anybody to grasp it in half an hour...