Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pardee has cleared 6-9 and should fight it out for second place with his old friend Kim Hill of Yale. First seems firmly in the grasp of Maryland's seven-footer Frank Costello, who is consistent at 6-10, but on a good day Pardee, who cleared 6-10 1/2 last summer, could challenge...
...professor naturally wants to improve the girl's grasp of fundamental principles, to insure that the knowledge she acquires will be a permanent protection against the chaos of experience. But his pupil is wholly deficient in logical capacity. The professor's efforts to impart the elements of mathematics only succeed in confusing her and stifling her enthusiasm. The girl is unable to go beyond simple addition, in spite of the professor's warning that all of life, philosophy and civilization consist in being able to disintegrate as well as integrate. If she can perform other operations (such...
Extrapolating the style, Jan and Dean (the "Father of Falsetto"), deliberately mix the sounds of surf and drag races into their records until the ear strains to grasp the lyrics. Explains Jan: "If the kids can hear the words, they'll turn their radio down. We want them to turn it up. It sort of relieves a kid's anxieties if he can drown out his parents...
...Communists out. We can handle them." Very possibly those youngsters genuinely thought that they were fighting for democracy. But before anyone could talk rationally about restoring anything in the Dominican Republic, there had to be a ceasefire, and at week's end that still seemed beyond any immediate grasp...
Last week he was in the midst of an energetic tour of three Eastern European countries-Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Quiet, curious-minded, and with a quick grasp of affairs, Stewart, 58, has obviously matured in office and is now regarded as a darkhorse possibility for future Prime Minister. In Defense, Denis Healey has aimed his expertise at the tactical and technological aspects of the military. Roy Jenkins, after 16 years as a backbencher, was given the Aviation Ministry, where his most controversial task has been to wipe out the costly TSR 2 jet bomber. At first, Jenkins...