Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BEST GRASP OF FOREIGN POLICY...
GORE. Edging rightward in pursuit of Sam Nunn fans, he showed a solid grasp of arms control and diplomacy. Hart is his equal, but few are listening...
Somehow, with all the electronic attention, the presidential race has been odd, difficult to grasp, even obscurely depressing. Bush and Rather last week enacted a dispiriting shadow play that made one nostalgic for some other time when, one imagines, presidential candidates had more size, and the waters of intelligence ran clearer, and words had meaning...
...mask U.S. involvement and even described what had happened when he accompanied Robert McFarlane on a secret trip to Tehran the previous May. On the campaign trail last week Bush said Nir presented him with only a "tiny piece of a very complicated puzzle," and he simply did not grasp its meaning. "I didn't know what he was referring to when he was talking about radicals...
...would be wonderful if there were a [common] cultural background we could grasp, but it's unclear that it exists," Katz said...