Word: grasping
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...that it stiffens in the sense's grasp...
...year ago, Stockwood opened a diocesan training center where laymen meet for intensive study and lectures on the relevance of faith to modern life, from the morality of expense-account living to the morality of strike tactics. Stockwood is encouraging putting off baptism until a child has some grasp of its meaning, and also favors "full-rite visitations," in which baptism, confirmation and First Communion are all administered to the same recipient on the same...
...small talk, turns out a prodigious amount of work each day at the 100-man headquarters of his holding company on two rented floors in Düsseldorf. He is frequently on the phone to such key managers as Walter Hitzinger of Daimler-Benz, constantly amazes them with his grasp of intricate details...
Catcher Dick Diehl had an equally admirable afternoon, delighting reunioners with three hits that drove in four runs. One of Diehl's feats, a prodigious drive beyond the grasp of the respectfully distant outfielders, would surely have been a homerun in any field with a fence. At Splinter Stadium, though, with its uncontained outfield pasture, the outfielders had time to rescue the ball before the massive catcher could make the turn at third, thus holding him to a triple...
...been the conscious widening of horizons, and the willingness to employ new techniques in training business administrators. Simply stated, the School has asked itself whether its concept of the "tough-minded" decision maker can survive in an era when the businessman needs both an expanded social conscience and a grasp of new quantitative techniques...