Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victory brings the team's undefeated league record to 7-0, leaving only hapless Cornell and Army squads between Harvard and sole position of an Eastern League title, which has eluded the team's grasp for more than 16 years...
...lack of self-confidence. Faith in a designer's name is a poor substitute for belief in one's force of character. An alligator shirt or a madras skirt is the equivalent of a sandwich sign advertising the wearer's shallowness and insecurity. It doesn't take a firm grasp of existential dialectics to see the intimate link between L.L. Bean and Nothingness. Preppy clothes cloak an inner void...
...report card on Haig's trip, however, showed mixed grades. The Secretary clearly impressed the leaders of the four Middle East countries he visited -Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia-with his forthright style and grasp of issues. Haig was decidedly less successful in pushing for his strategic consensus. At the end of his swing through the Middle East, Haig confidently stated that "I don't know at any stop where consensus was not agreed to and arrived at." In fact, the Secretary heard dissonant notes from leaders of all four nations...
...Many members argued that provisions in the contract gave mine operators power to lease coal property to nonunion companies as well as skimp on contributions to pension funds. On the other hand, industry officials seemed to feel that the rejection simply reflected the union's weakening grasp its members. Said one: "Facts had nothing to do with it. Rationality went out the window. What developed was emotion, suspicion and misinformation. It just gathered." Conceded Kentucky Miner Tommy Gaston, a member of the union's negotiating team: "I think the biggest problem was that the contract was not properly...
...look at the most famous of his water studies, the image of water gushing from a pipe into a cistern. There seems to be no doubt, as Kenneth Clark pointed out a generation ago, that Leonardo's eye was preternaturally fast; he could grasp and isolate fractions of movement in time with a precision that would only be confirmed, more than four centuries later, by strobe photography. So with his drawing: the reflux of foam, the chrysanthemum-like poppling of the back eddies on the surface, the strings and rings of bubbles are seen with astounding acuity...