Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shot and was the first to grab Sirhan. He had described the shooting to the grand jury as "very deliberate." Two of Kennedy's companions, former L.A. Ram Lineman Roosevelt Grier, who wrestled with Sirhan, and Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, who knocked the pistol from his grasp, should be on hand, as well as Author George Plimpton, who also joined in the fray. When the time comes for them to recall their movements, the prosecution will produce a scale model of the pantry, with warming tables, tray stackers and an ice machine. To establish premeditation and deliberation, the prosecution...
...occasional crudities that soured the promising Johnson years. Horace Busby, Johnson's friend and a perceptive former aide, pointed out recently that social changes now come so rapidly that they outstrip the ability to comprehend them, let alone cope with them. Occasionally, Johnson's shrewd mind did grasp the moment and the need. When, after Selma, he went before Congress to vow "We shall overcome," he was genuinely moving. And some of the innovative programs he began, such as Headstart, testified to his willingness to seek new solutions. Yet all too often he answered the call...
...world where everything must be measured and analyzed, how can man grasp the supernatural? Historical criticism and Freudian psychology answer that a sense of transcendence is a product of man's own times and his psychological needs. Even theologians have gloomily conceded the death...
Does Harvard want to do that? Most of the faculty arguments which I have heard at Paine Hall, the Lowell Lecture Hall Debate, and the Lowell House have failed to grasp the connection between ROTC and the war, and with a remarkable lack of a sense of urgency on the matter...
...production and general prosperity have continued to grow vigorously, despite political assassinations, race riots, international monetary crises and breaks in the stock market. In the past year the economy advanced in the face of all of that, and more. Yet economic Utopia is far from the nation's grasp. This year, the expansion has gone too far, too fast. In fact, there have been excessive increases in three vital areas: wages, prices and Government spending. During 1968, more than in any other year since the early 1950s, the joys of expansion were shaken and weakened by the jolts...