Word: grasping
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...show, how both the things of the spirit and material things are interrelated and work together-either for the enrichment or for the destructive impoverishment of mankind." This is true in the U.S. as well as in the world at large, and "to the extent that we grasp the situation, our magazines will be more interesting and more effective in moving with our readers toward the inner meaning and outward achievements of the Great Society...
...Space lingo for "grasp...
...from shantytown to voting booth has been cleared. Now Los Angeles has shown that the road from deprivation to decent schools, jobs and homes, may be even more tortuous and lonely. There are no short cuts, and in the aftermath of violence the people of Watts may begin to grasp that fact. Many did. "I don't want anyone to give me anything," said a Negro laborer. "All I want...
...Cash. Typically, the end seemed close at hand-and yet not quite within grasp. The bitter hatred between the loyalist forces of General Antonio Imbert Barrera and Colonel Francisco Camaaño Deñó's rebels had hardly diminished. The rebels claimed to want a provisional government; yet rebel youths were taking daily training in street fighting and guerrilla warfare-under the leadership of men of the Castroite 14th-of-June group. Last week Loyalist Imbert's radio was howling at the OAS, issuing scare warnings of imminent violence, insisting that his junta was in fact...
Unresolved Issue. The major obstacles to the onrush of automation are almost all human. On the one hand, newspaper management has been slow to grasp the importance of the new technology; on the other, the labor unions fear that automation will cost them their jobs...