Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than Hippocrates, has affected subjects from seven to 79. Modern medicine knows it as a mental condition, arising from emotional needs so intense that they lead to suppression of menstruation, distention of the abdomen, enlargement of the breasts, and morning nausea. Most cases involve psychotic women with a feeble grasp of reality. But this patient was not psychotic. Her perceptions were normal; she knew all along that the operation had barred her from reproduction...
...history majors, spread over a two year period. Moreover, our tutors, qualified as they undoubtedly are in their own fields, are not expert in problems of philosophy. Some have audited conscientiously Mr. White's course; most have not had the time, and, as a result, do not seem to grasp several of the many subtleties involved in this field...
...generation chronically incoherent in the English language. Cut off from any but the most obvious contact with his tradition, e.g., an occasional project visit to the local courthouse, the student has lost his sense of history. Surely the history of the Crusades can give a young American a better grasp of the. problems implicit in the U.N. or NATO than dressing up as a Pakistani delegate in an imitation U.N. Assembly at school...
...certainly not a professional historian, would dare to box the compass of Churchill's subject matter. His great grasp of the essential fact made him, in power, a master of decision and, in the hindsight of history, a master of the precis. Never has so much been contained in so few words. He begins the last volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples in 1815, leaving Waterloo (reluctantly, it would seem) behind him to take on the task of shaping the whole course of the British Empire and the American Republic in the last century into...
...make a snake out of clay. "He has a considerable grasp of spatial values...