Word: grasped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always there, though too often it is forgotten; in the mid-60s the new presses in upon events with a force so strong that only the alert can grasp its significance. TIME'S continuing aim is to respect the old that is worthy of respect, to be interested in the new that is worthy of interest, and to relate them to one another in a way that sheds intelligent light on both...
...times he hectors uncooperative court clerks: "You are not the court. You are not God. You are just Charley Limpus." Always he seems more hep on relevant new decisions than many judges. "He's a brilliant man," says Orange County Public Defender W. D. Frederick Jr. "His grasp of case law is phenomenal...
...Doll Baby, Let's Go." But Salinger has since made it clear that he is not just kidding around, now impresses audiences with his grasp of California problems. He works 18-hour days, often gets by on five hours of sleep, has dropped 13 Ibs. to 190 in five weeks...
...more like mine host of the Elsinore Hilton. Eileen Her-lie is a middle-aged matron with diction; it is easier to imagine her at bridge than in the "rank sweat of an enseamed bed." The saddest thing about Linda Marsh's Ophelia is how far beyond her grasp the part...
...enter into the kingdom of God." The stern-minded theologians of early Christianity, Father Dyer says, interpreted these words strictly, and consigned unbaptized babes to hell. "They are vessels of contumely and the wrath of God is upon them," wrote St. Augustine. "If no one frees them from the grasp of the devil, what wonder is it that they must suffer in flames with...