Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night meeting with his Army Committee, scribbled in his comments and returned it to Richardson. One line in the story seemed to have found Naguib's Achilles' heel. Comparing him with Turkey's Kemal Ataturk, the story read: "Naguib, a simpler man, lacks Ataturk's grasp of politics, his vision, his rousing oratory; he may also lack his iron will to rule." Naguib had crossed out these words and had scribbled in the margin: "How did you know all this? It is not true. "As if to prove his will of iron, the following day Naguib...
...early November, just before the Committee adjourned, Trygve Lie resigned. Senator McCarran was quick to read this as the results of the "disclosures of the Committee." And only three days later, on November 14, Abraham H. Feller, the U.N.'s legal counsel, tore himself from his wife's grasp to leap from his twelve story apartment window...
...Dwight Eisenhower had been "tremendously impressed" by his judgment and his equanimity, and ended many a post-nomination strategy conference with: "Let's ask Herb." Soon Brownell was slipping in to see Candidate Eisenhower, before long had a chair to put his foot on and a phone to grasp. When the Nixon fund furor broke, it was Brownell who took charge. He talked to some of the wisest heads in the party, studied the legal implications of the fund, flew to Cincinnati to see Eisenhower. He boarded the campaign train one night unseen by the press, spent several hours...
...connected with the Nationalist government - confessed to being an "accessory thug" of the "reactionary looting class." Next came reports in "creative history"; one of the most successful told how the Chinese Communist Party had united China and won the war against Japan. Anyone who failed to grasp this was rebuked for not being a "clear-thinking person...
...attack in detail: "My mind was jammed with conceited thoughts and antic joy. I struggled to fix my brain on reality, to attempt to name the color of the sea about me ... navy blue, aquamarine and Prussian blue. The debate would not resolve. The sole fact I could grasp was that there was no roof and no floor in the blue room...