Word: grasping
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Though they’re still giddy from their recent victory, I’m sure many Red Sox fans can still quote a thousand and one times when a World Series title was within grasp, when one more strike, one less error, meant victory, when the only possible reason that a championship banner didn’t get hung at Fenway was the existence of a curse...
Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom said he contributed to Bush because Kerry fails to grasp the lessons of Sept. 11 and thus has a “profoundly misguided” foreign policy...
...perceive. After 9/11 Bush benefited from the public's willingness to suspend its skepticism and go along with his audacious vision for transforming the Middle East. Some of that trust, however, was squandered with the invasion of Iraq--and so the challenger finds the presidency within his grasp. Kerry may yet win as a result of the collapse of Bush's vision. But if he does, the scale of the challenges facing the new Commander in Chief will demand that he find one of his own. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington
...challenging works on paper I have seen in a long time. Castle’s sooty medium gives his drawings an eerie, cloudy atmosphere. The rendering of the subjects, often domestic interiors or landscapes, is surprisingly highly resolved, showing a very sophisticated use of shading and an inexplicably accurate grasp of perspective. He thus achieves an uncannily convincing suggestion of deep space that contrasts sharply with the roughness and irregularity of the paper he worked on. Here the torn edge of an envelope, there a line of writing peeking through a light gray ground, serve to continually interrupt the depicted...
Washington had no more than a grade-school education, but he had an early grasp of issues that would be crucial to America's future, such as westward expansion and the vexing matter of slavery. He eventually concluded that slavery must be abolished, though his own slaves were freed only after his death. He also understood precisely what his role in the new nation should be. Washington emerged from the War of Independence as a kind of god. Like Caesar before him and Napoleon after, he might easily have parlayed military glory into imperial power. But he performed his greatest...