Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy's 31 1/2-ft., 58,000-lb., three-man Sea Cliff, which can safely carry its crew to a depth of 20,000 ft. Its manipulator arms can operate a variety of underwater tools, including a drill, a cable cutter, scissors, and plier-like jaws that can grasp sunken torpedoes, as well as attach cable slings to raise heavier objects such as downed aircraft...
Parisians were not hostile to Americans and did not berate us, although most of the waiters were still as snobby as ever. But, instead, if I can properly grasp the feelings of this group of people, I sensed their response to be one of incredulity...
Science, however, is not as incomprehensible as it may seem. If the average reporter following the medical beat made even the slightest attempt to grasp the concepts at play, the average reader would be correspondingly better informed. And thus science and research would become less of a mystery and more of an accepted and well understood field, more along the lines of politics than magic...
...makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees himself in boardroom costume, however, seems unlikely to grasp the concepts of weary connivance that nourish the standard thriller...
...rebellion in Mindanao. Negotiations over implementing the agreement broke down in 1977, and Muslim activists claim the Marcos government reneged on a promise to grant autonomy to Mindanao. Said Professor Asiri Abubakar, of the University of the Philippines: "It's about time that the Aquino government gets a good grasp of the Muslim situation before it explodes again...