Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel President Reagan fully understands the problems facing the country today, or are many problems beyond his grasp...
...Second Time Around: When Princeton QB Jason Garrett eluded the grasp of Harvard Captian Kevin Dulsky to pick up 11 yards in the fourth quarter, most defensive line-men would have been annoyed at themselves for not sacking the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage...
...Katie doesn't know anything. She does not have a grasp of the issues in New Haven," Michaelson said. "Whenever we all speak in public, it is obvious that she is just a front for the other Yale democrats who are helping her out," he said...
...daily playercise," burbles Instructor Jackie Rubenstein, as she launches into a nursery-like rhyme: "Open, shut them, give a little clap, clap, clap, and put them in your lap, lap, lap . . ." On cue, 19 mothers seated in a circle on the floor grasp the wrists of the toddlers before them and dutifully push and pull tiny arms and hands. Rubenstein changes her tune, tykes are settled on their backs, and mothers pedal little limbs bicycle- style. Then to a third ditty, with youngsters in their laps, mothers inch their hips forward to the center of the ring where they lift...
What Bork fails to grasp is that at the national level, the level of constitutional interpretation and adjudication, America is and must be one nation indivisible under principle, if not God. That is all we have that unites us. Ours is an intensely pluralistic culture and there are, quite simply, times when people honestly and sincerely disagree--over what the law says, what our political institutions stand for, what the purpose of our common life...