Word: grasping
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...What? What are you talking about?” they said, with the easy superiority of those who have both new t-shirts and a grasp of basic concepts in government...
...LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, AND I'M TIRED OF paying high taxes only to see our freeways jammed and our school systems and hospitals overburdened [Sept. 20]. Is it going to take another 9/11 before politicians grasp how easy it is for evildoers to cross from Mexico into the U.S.? Something needs to be done, and fast...
...Iraq has heightened their differences. In the government's view, Labor's hostility to the war reflects all that is wrong with the leftist world view: excessive faith in the United Nations, failure to grasp the global nature of the terrorist threat, and an unwarranted suspicion of the world's most powerful nation. For Labor, the "rush to war" in Iraq exposed the blind spots in the government's foreign policy: excessive closeness to Washington ("sucking up" is Latham's term), insufficient respect for the U.N., and a wrongheaded readiness to fight other people's wars...
...politicians and future leaders, not having ROTC available on campus is an act of negligence. So long as there are Harvard students who may be making decisions in a decade or two as to whether they should send a country to war or not, they should be allowed to grasp what exactly is involved...
...another rope, sit up on your hand, ok. The bull is still but for the vague vibrations of muscle and bone, and sitting on it feels like straddling the back of a suede couch with a massage setting and, incidentally, horns. My nerves boil over into panic, and I grasp for a question I haven’t asked yet—should I move back? In which direction? This time it won’t be a baseball and my finger but a hoof and my head, and I want to be damn well sure I do this right...