Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mold of those American writers who demand consideration of their contribution to the literature of travel. He writes about the world as if a were a marvelously crafted gadget to be pulled apart and played with, something wondrous in all its aspects yet entirely susceptible to the grasp of his imagination...
...appeal of lower taxes within immediate grasp poses a tough psychological opposition for groups such as the Cambridge Coalition, which advocates the full over-ride...
...interlocutors created an atmosphere compounded of petty irritation and a strange kind of exaltation at witnessing a people baring its soul so nakedly. It obscured the fact that crabwise, in a manner least calculated to get it credit, the Israeli Cabinet was extending itself to overcome its nightmares and grasp its future. Things were moving in the right direction...
...discovered an extensive microfilm library of U.S. documents in the embassy. "We had no inkling we were sitting on such a gold mine," said the official. "We shall release these documents at sensitive times, in the best interests of the revolution." The story of how the U.S. failed to grasp what was happening in Iran seems to be far from over...
...JANSON's History of Art, it is written that turn-of-the century painters saw in cubism "a special affinity with the geometric precision of engineering that made it uniquely attuned to the dynamism of modern life." Substitute "jumble" for "dynamism" and grasp the essence of Rubik's Cubism, a style now immortalized in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection...