Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past nine months, as Red China writhed in the grasp of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong has been the chief watching point for the outside world...
...eight-year terms. University of Minnesota regents are elected by the state legislature for six years. The University of Alabama board selects its own new members for twelve years. Inevitably, the new regent takes years to get oriented. "Regardless of how much you study, you never get the grasp of a university the way you would of your own business," concedes Wisconsin Regent Charles D. Gelatt...
...material. In The Bridal Canopy, the Hasid Reb Yudel Nathanson, a deliberately quixotic hero, half saint, half shlemiel, sets out to beg a dowry for his daughters. The book is one long metaphor for the wandering Jew, but Agnon heroes have a disconcerting universality. "A difficult thing to grasp," says Reb Yudel, pondering war. "What satisfaction do the kings derive in sending folk of this countryside to another land and folk of another land to this countryside? What difference does it make to the Angel of Death whether he has to come here or go there...
Died. Major General Holger N. Tof-toy, 64, U.S. Army missile expert, who in the closing days of World War II was responsible for taking more than 125 German V-2 rocket scientists (including Wernher Von Braun) from the grasp of the Russians, brought them to help rocketeers at U.S. bases, notably the Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., which he commanded from 1954 to 1958, and where he led the development of such missiles as the Nike, Corporal, Hawk, Redstone and Honest John; after a long illness; at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington...
...world but only a few times a year in Cambridge. Perhaps this is why last Friday's concert at Sanders sounded a little hasty, like a glorified after thought. The program was a long and challenging collection of renaissance, baroque, and contemporary music, and the performance showed an excellent grasp of several styles of 20th century music. But the first half of the program, devoted to early music, was less successful, in part because of the simple unwieldiness of such a large chorus for this type of music...