Word: grasping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PURLIE (562). Anyone who has ever been to an evangelistic revival meeting will instantly grasp the tempo, rhetoric and fervor of this show. When these people "rock church," they really rock church. Cleavon Little is a kinetic preacherman, and 22-year-old Patti Jo is as much of a superfind as her predecessor, Melba Moore, and equally beguiling...
Also tarnished was the man who courageously initiated the study, Secretary McNamara. His bloodless passion for systems management did not permit him to grasp the matters of spirit and motivation that technology could not conquer?until the human price had far exceeded the value of the attainable ends. Too much a proponent of the Defense and State Department plans that reached him, McGeorge Bundy failed to perform his role of giving the President a wide and honest range of choices. His brother Bill, like McNaughton, comes across as too cute and manipulation-minded for his own?and the nation...
...long-held feeling that Congress had been misled by the Executive Branch. "These documents," fumed Idaho Democrat Frank Church, "secure Johnson's position as a liar." Declared Maryland Republican Charles Mathias: "I am outraged?but I'm worn down with outrage." Yet the Congress made no immediate move to grasp control of the war from the Nixon Administration...
Such incremental reforms will not greatly affect CRR's status in this community. They will go some way toward assuring that the Committee has a clear grasp of the way in which it conducts itself...
...impeccable credentials on social affairs, economics and conservation" of Senator Henry Jackson are not "lost to view," to anyone who has been paying attention. There is no politician in the country who has a better grasp of the national interest, or who has voted more consistently in that interest...