Word: graspingly
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...declined because of some failure in his capacity to deal with crises. And as crises flashed across the map like fireflies on a hot night-as Viet Nam got messier and Charles de Gaulle frostier--that critical impression of Johnson made it seem all the more apparent that his grasp on the reins was too uncertain...
...Africa, where he laid the groundwork for the U.S.-British landings; Berlin during the airlift; Belgrade, Panmunjom, the Middle East, London during the Suez crisis. But for the most part, Murphy was an implementer, not a maker, of policies. His qualities were composure under fire, persuasiveness and an encyclopedic grasp of detail...
...numbers but with real objects, such as beads, stones, sticks. By manipulating objects in collections (or "sets") the child learns crucial ideas. He may be asked to remove pairs of objects from two collections, for example. When both collections run out at the same time, he begins to grasp the idea of equality. When one runs out first, he learns about inequalities...
Equal collections of different things bring up the idea of number as a common property of the sets; then the child can move on to grasp the symbolism of numbers expressed as numerals. He sees that for convenience the first ten symbols may be recombined for numbers greater than nine. He may also learn that each digit (say in 326) has a "place value" ten times that of its neighbor to the right (three hundreds, two tens, six ones). He discovers the wonder of that great ancient invention, zero, the "place holder" that allows infinite expansions (606 would be simply...
...society grows more complex, said the 19-member commission* in a 36-page report, the challenge is to free every American mind to cope and choose wisely. "A man is free in the degree to which he has a rational grasp of himself and his surroundings. The main restrictions to freedom are prejudice and ignorance. It is in this sense that a person without some degree of intellectual sophistication, though he may be free to think, speak and act as he pleases, is not free." And such freedom is "beyond the maturity attained by most adolescents." They need at least...