Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...altogether. The Greeks are not notoriously pro-monarchy to begin with, and the junta has skillfully kept Constantine in an ambivalent position as to his eventual fate. This situation has caused the King to remain silent and mostly out of sight even as his country slips farther from his grasp. With no pressures of his own to apply, he can only hope not to antagonize the junta; he thus speaks with no Greek politicians, grants no press interviews. He is, in effect, a prisoner in exile...
Politburo membership and the policymaking power that goes with it have always exceeded Thuy's grasp. He stands at the front of the second rank. "Thuy is a thoroughgoing professional," concedes a U.S. diplomat. "He knows what he's doing, even if he is only doing what he has been told." As Foreign Minister from 1963 until his removal two years later for undisclosed-and hitherto unnoticed-"health reasons," Thuy mouthed Hanoi's message, glad-handed visitors, and facelessly executed orders from above. He was replaced by Nguyen Duy Trinh, a pro-Peking hardliner. Although favoring Moscow...
...reported, "and coaches like Tony Cuccinello here, hitting his billionth fungo, suggest that the legend is true. With the fungo bat, an instrument as thin as a diplomat's umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint and gets about as much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun reported on the Copacabana waiter who felt that "presiding over the organized frenzy" of the club complemented his training as an umpire, the little-known pro golfer...
Lytton's predicament arises partly from events beyond his grasp, partly from his own reach. He has been reaching ever since he arrived in California with $30 in his pocket in the late '30s. He wrote radio-and screenplays ("I'm a lot prouder of some of the mortgages I've written," he says), then took on an advertising job for a mortgage broker. Later, when he moved into S&Ls, Lytton quickly proved himself a master of theatrical dazzle as he wooed savings accounts. He held art auctions and book fairs, gave away coffee...
...Film Culture (to continue the cinema parallel). But this is a fertile field, without question, and while the categories of "groups" and Negro performers may be of equivalent stature, the category of white individuals is schematically the logical starting point and should provide more handles for the novitiate to grasp...