Word: graspingly
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...voters' inability to obtain a real grasp of Jimmy Carter's nature is not really so surprising. It would not be too extreme to say that no presidential campaign in American history has succeeded in accurately portraying the candidates' real personalities. On the other hand, past candidates have been more successful than Carter in presenting a comprehensible portrait of themselves to the voters, regardless of accuracy. And therein lies a measure of Gerald Ford's success...
...total separation between the head of government and the head of state. The fact that the Queen is above politics is one of the intangible advantages. The other thing is the continuity of the Crown and, in our particular case, the Queen's sheer hard work and deep grasp of every kind of national and international problem. You have an audience every week, lasting about an hour. She sometimes floors you-did floor me very early in my premiership-by referring to a Cabinet committee paper that she had read overnight and that I was saving for the weekend...
...Ford's grasp of foreign policy and even his mere competence were called into question during his debate with Carter when he insisted that the Soviet Union does not dominate Eastern Europe...
...series series of interviews with family and aquaintances, while McCarthy relied solely on public sources. Given the circumstances, McCarthy must have been tempted to consult his predecessor's text. Yet she is footnoted only once in the biography, to recommend her work for a contrasting opinion. Considering the deft grasp of history displayed in Celine, you'd expect Patrick McCarthy to be a shrewder politician...
...through intelligence, not faith, that Carter and his young campaign manager Hamilton Jordan analyzed this year's lineup of primaries and devised a meticulous, prescient plan for using them to win the nomination. And it was intelligence, of course, that enabled Carter to grasp the intricacies of many, though certainly not all, national issues while simultaneously campaigning around the country...