Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golf course, has little interest in the running of Government. In cold fact, the President is at his desk daily at 7:45 a.m. for the morning's round of appointments, spends most of his afternoons doing the essential staff work that the presidency requires, consistently shows his grasp of key principles and detail at Cabinet and top-level strategy meetings. Moreover, by delegating details, the President heads a well-oiled, relatively trouble-free Administration where the ripe feuds and conflicting policies of Truman-Roosevelt days are unheard of. White House staffers acknowledge that Ike has recently taken...
...Golden Arm), a golden-haired Manhattan society beauty of the '205 (The Eddy Duchin Story). In each picture, the major acting burden fell on others, while Newcomer Novak managed to scale the heights of.adequacy. Jeanne Eagels casts her in the first part that is just beyond her grasp-that of an actress. And not just any actress, but the brilliant, tempestuous Broadway deity of the teens and '20s, who ran for four years as Sadie Thompson in Rain, lived with tigerish passion, and died at 35 in a gutterdam-merung of hooch and heroin...
...million out of the legislature for four TB hospitals, plus millions more for other attacks on the disease. But last week Crusader Edwards, now 73, was accused by Florida's leading TB specialists of deliberately wrecking the program he had so laboriously set up. Their argument: Edwards cannot grasp just how successful his own crusade and the doctors' new drugs have been...
...difference between the Mathes and Medina instructions might be "subtle and difficult to grasp," wrote Harlan, but this only proves the need for requiring clarity...
...from the Bliss endowment, spent a great deal of time and effort on obtaining as much source material as possible for the institution. As such material is not only rare but obscure, cablegrams often had to be dispatched to European dealers in order to save various documents from the grasp of other Byzantinists...