Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening of Shavian sport, The Bernard Shaw Story, a one-man show now playing in Manhattan. Fletcher gleaned a few lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket, lawn tennis, puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah...
After winning the toss and electing to receive, Yale started the game in slam-bang fashion. Jim Fisher took Jim Babcock kickoff on his two-yard line, veered to the left, and eluded the grasp of several Harvard tacklers. He was finally hit on the Crimson's 36-yard line by safetyman Tom Williamson after a gain of 62 yards...
...convictions about foreign aid would seem to be those of a crusading idealist were it not for the English sensibility she injects in every thought. Although she has a firm grasp on economic realities, her feelings are largely visionary. "I mean," she said, "we give billions for a dubious defense and billions more for the moon but almost nothing for the world we have now, which is the only one we have, isn't' it? Of course a lot of disturbing things happen with foreign aid, but you don't scrap a whole program when one rocket blows...
Schlesinger led what he called in his last work "the shift from 'drum and trumpet history' to 'the history of culture, the real history of men and women.'" In the book, In Retrospect: the History of a Historian, he defined social history as an effort to "grasp and depict both the inner and outer life of society and to integrate...
This style of politics is highly personalized. The skillful councillor has a firm grasp on his "number one votes," and election-time does not see the swaying of large numbers of people from one candidate to another. At a recent political rally, one politician surveyed the crowd and commented: "There's not a person in this room who doesn't already know who his 'number one vote' is going to. You can't be active in Cambridge politics and stay uncommitted...