Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first place, new medicines and methods of treatment require a high degree of scientific sophistication on the part of their users. One does not, of course, have to have majored in the sciences to have the necessary grasp of them...
...world waited to write his eulogies. Statesman and politician, historian and painter, orater and adventurer, his versatility, energy and excellence made him a revered and legendary figure ten years before his death. But imposing as his accomplishments are--his thirty volumes, his Nobel Prize, his magnificient speeches, his lucid grasp of European politics, his war-time greatness--it is ultimately his spirit, the proud, fierce joy with which he lived, that is most awesome...
...book, entitled Law and Lawyers in the United States: The Common Law Under Stress, Griswold said that the great hopes embodied in the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution "have continuously eluded our grasp...
...plugs, strings of red beads, or just about anything else an imaginative fisherman happens to tie to his hook. It does not rise to the lure like a finicky rainbow, it attacks it enthusiastically-so hard that the pole may literally be torn from an unwary angler's grasp...
...Churchill who was always right: right about the potential of air power and tanks in 1916, right about the futility of appeasement in 1938, right about the danger of Soviet expansionism in 1945. And it is true that his historian's mind had few equals in its grasp of European international politics. But his vision sometimes failed; he was poorly equipped to deal with such postwar problems as economic adjustment to peace and the necessity to "preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Churchill's defeat in the 1945 general elections seems completely unjustified in The Finest Hours...