Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial. The scientific experts file into the witness box; one is deaf, one is shortsighted, one is smooth as candle grease; but none agrees with the next on what constitutes a human being. Is man to be defined by his jawbone? By his rational capacity? By his grasp of metaphysics? Or is the judge right when he muses (without a trace of cynicism) that the tropis must be animals because they are not cannibals...
These were sweeping decisions, some of which will continue to affect the U.S. people and their allies for years to come. In many ways they proved an organizational grasp of the workings of the Pentagon which none of Engine Charlie's predecessors in office had ever shown. To all appearances, Wilson had established more effective control than James Forrestal (September 1947 to March 1949), more cooperation than ham-handed Louis Johnson (April 1949 to September 1950), better discipline than Old Soldier George Marshall (September 1950 to September 1951), and greater loyalty from his top civilian assistants than even affable...
...Army, which Van Fleet found "fresh, hard and wiry." heroically fought far larger Communist Armies, and brought them to a standstill. In May the U.N. forces threw back another offensive, then counterattacked. For a few days while the Chinese retreated in disorder. Van Fleet saw total victory within his grasp. "Then our Government's high policy intervened, and we were ordered not to advance any farther...
...difficult to describe the vacuum which provost Buck's departure will leave. The job of Provost, combining charge of numerous organizations like the Harvard Yenching Institute with the task of running the Faculty, involves more detail and more broad scope, more fiscal genius and more grasp of principles, then we can describe in a few paragraphs. Mr. Buck not only filled the job but made it, and through it impressed his ideas firmly on Harvard much to everyone's benefit. Like all posts whose first occupants made them what they are, that of Provost and Dean will be very difficult...
These remarks preface this article every year, but their truth is reaffirmed with each freshman class. For unless the prospective physicist has full comprehension of all of his required mathematics courses, he will almost certainly find theoretical physics completely beyond his grasp...