Word: grasping
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...today," Restic said. "That was the Multiflex. He has such a grasp of it. He has poise. He takes charge. You gain leadership by way of execution...
...Soviet Union? That huge blob of blood red that dominated maps of the Eurasian landmass for 70 years now broken up into a crazy quilt of squirming lines enclosing a kaleidoscope of colors? The concept is even harder to grasp than the idea of a noncommunist Soviet Union. There had once -- for centuries, in fact -- been something like that, in the form of the Russian empire. But no monolithic state covering that immense area -- none...
...over the head with a) during the opening speech. After one meal at the Union, b) is easy to understand. Tradition is a little harder to grasp, but that's the point. If you have to ask why about something at Harvard--like why there are no air conditioners, why you have to comp everything, why you watch Love Story, the answer will always be tradition...
Many ineptitudes: tyranny does its best work in the dark, and information is often more powerful than guns. But the committee did not grasp that rudiment either. It did not shut down the country's television, telephones and other communications with the rest of the world. Or maybe it could not have done so anyway, so pervasive, adaptable and versatile are the electronic instruments...
...rebel from the 21st century) visits the Virgin Mary (a Los Angeles waitress named Sarah Connor) to tell her she is to be the mother of a political messiah -- and that if she wants to give birth to this redeemer, she must stay out of the terminator's steely grasp. In T2, 10 years later, the T-man is back, but on the side of the angels. His mission is to protect Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and her young son (Edward Furlong) from an even more efficiently psychopathic cyborg, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick). The movie is a 135-minute chase...